Hal Herring

Famous Firearms of the Old West

From Wild Bill Hickok's Colt Revolvers To Geronimo's Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History

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Produktbeschreibung

From Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill and from Chief Joseph to Geronimo, the most famous guns in the West and the history behind them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: TwoDot
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780762773497
• ISBN-10: 0762773499
• Artikelnr.: 33390185

Autorenporträt

Hal Herring is a contributing editor at Field and Stream and an editor-at-large for the online news magazine newwest.net. His fiction, journalism, and essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and the Economist.

Inhaltsangabe

(1) Billy the Kid's 1873 Winchester that killed Buckshot Roberts (2) John
Wesley Hardin's 1860 Model. 44 SA revolvers (3) Wild Bill Hickock's Smith &
Wesson single action #2 Army revolvers (4) Tom Horn's classic .30-30 lever
action Winchester (5) Buffalo Bill Cody's .50 caliber breechloading needle
gun, nicknamed "Lucretia Borgia" (6) Ned Christie's .30-30 Winchester (7)
Chief Joseph's surrender gun, model 1866 .44 rimfire (8) Joseph Smith's
Allen pepperbox and English pocket pistol (9) Custer's .50-80 rolling block
rifle (10) Geronimo's .44 Spencer repeater (11) John Browne's Sharp's (12)
Cole Younger's Colt .44 conversions