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Prior to the building of the transcontinental railroad, the area between the Missouri River and the West coast was largely uninhabited by settlers, but as this vast area became accessible to them, and as they pushed westward, the problems of violence on the frontier increased. Bears, wolves, and Indians no longer posed the greatest threat to pioneers; white clashed with white, the lawful with the lawless. And, of course, firearms played a major role in this drama. This is the second volume of a two-part study of firearms in the nineteenth-century American West. It traces the development of the firearm from the close of the Civil War to the beginning of its modern era. Within this period, the authors have discussed all the important military and civilian firearms used in the settling of the West, as well as the guns favoured by Indians. Over five hundred photographs illustrate the weapons and the famous and now-forgotten men and women who used them.

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Without question the best book ever published on the [subject] . . . clear, precise, and easy to read . . . a masterpiece of simplicity and thoroughness, [and] a book for experts and novices alike. True West For those with a fascination for firearms, this may represent the ultimate book on the American West. American Rifleman [A] smashing success. . . . A visual feast of the American West, done with meticulous scholarship, and will be the best work on the subject for many years. Historical Society of Southern California

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After graduating from Western Michigan University, Louis A. Garavaglia served as an army lieutenant with a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) unit in Vietnam. Later he became an Assistant Technical Editor for the American Rifleman. He is now a mechanical designer in Melbourne, Florida, and on occasion still works as a freelance writer. Charles G. Worman is Fellow and Life Member of the Company of Military Historians and currently is the Curator at the U.S. Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

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