Title Guns on the early frontiers : a history of firearms from colonial times through the years of the Western fur trade / by Carl P. Russell

Published Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1957 ©1957

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 395 pages) : illustrations Series Gun regulation and legislation in America Contents Arming the American Indian: The French trade in guns ; The Dutch and the Swedes ; The bid made by Spain ; The English trade ; Effects of the American Revolution upon the distribution of guns to Indians ; Indian guns in the United States -- Personal weapons of the traders and trappers: Muskets ; Blunderbusses ; Rifles ; Pistols ; Gunsmiths and gunsmithing -- Trade muskets and rifles supplied to the Indians: The trade gun ; Rifles supplied to Indians -- Military arms of the fur-trade period: Military muskets ; Musketoons and carbines ; United States rifles ; United States pistols -- Powder, ball, and accessories: Gunpowder ; Powder containers ; Leaden missiles ; Gunflints ; Percussion caps ; Cartridges ; Cartridge boxes ; Gun worms -- Small cannon of the traders and the military: Swivel guns ; Small cannon mounted on boats ; Swivel guns of the musket type ; Wheeled cannon in the fur fields ; Frémont's cannon ; Cannon in the wilderness forts -- Acknowledgments -- Finding list : collections in which illustrated guns and appurtenances are preserved -- Notes -- Glossary of gun terms -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "Guns on the early frontiers is concerned particularly with the arms used in the West during the first half of the nineteenth century, but since the guns used in the earlier settlement of the eastern half of the continent were the antecedents of the western arms, these too are discussed. And in order that the story of guns in the West may be better understood, the roots of the gun trade are traced to their seventeenth-century origins on the eastern seaboard and on the St. Lawrence. Dutch, French and English traders, especially, laid the groundwork for the gun trade in the New World two hundred years before the Americans started to trade in guns. Consequently, European arms and European influences are given some attention"--Page viii Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-381) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed January 16, 2020) Subject Firearms -- United States -- History Firearms industry and trade -- United States -- History Fur trade -- United States -- History Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) Indian weapons -- United States Firearms Firearms industry and trade Frontier and pioneer life Fur trade Indian weapons United States West United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book

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