A used book in excellent condition. This volume has been out of print for over a decade. Stock photo shown. A detailed photographic examination of hundreds of weapons and accouterments of the Golden Age combined into three reference volumes. Over forty pages each are devoted to tomahawks, knives, scrimshaw powder horns and Kentucky rifles, with the remainder covering Indian war clubs, hunting bags. Kentucky pistols and other accouterments. Over six hundred photos provide visual examples of actual design and details, most of which have never been illustrated in a publication before. Critical dimensions accompany virtually all descriptions.
Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11" format, with 216 pages.
The Table of Contents includes the following:
Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11" format, with 216 pages.
The Table of Contents includes the following:
- Rifles
- Pistols
- Hunting Bags
- War Clubs
- Hide Scrapers
- Trade Silver
- Tobacco Box and Fire Striker
- Tinder Boxes and Firestrikers
- Powder Measures
- Halberds
- Tomahawks and Axes
- Knives
- Powder Hornds