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Author | : Ray Hogan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Large type books |
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The local sheriff told Jake Benedict that his father had hijacked a load of army rifles to sell to the bloodthirsty Apaches. Jake didn't believe a word of it, so he rode into the trackless territory with his gun ready to blow away anyone who got between him and the truth.
Author | : Ray Hogan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781585473403 |
Jake Benedict rode all the way from a played-out dirt farm in Tennessee to the raw New Mexico territory to find out what happened to his father. What he heard wasn’t pretty. The local sheriff said Fritz Benedict had hijacked a load of army rifles to sell to the bloodthirsty Apaches. Jake didn’t believe a word of it, so he did the only thing he could. Jake Benedict rode into the trackless territory with his gun ready to blow away anyone who got between him and the truth.
Author | : Robert S. Seigler |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2017-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611177936 |
A thoroughly researched account of weapons innovation and industrialization in South Carolina during the Civil War and the man who made it happen. A year after seceding from the Union, South Carolina and the Confederate States government faced the daunting challenge of equipping soldiers with weapons, ammunition, and other military implements during the American Civil War. In The Best Gun in the World, Robert S. Seigler explains how South Carolina created its own armory and then enlisted the help of a weapons technology inventor to meet the demand. Seigler mined state and federal factory records, national and state archives, and US patents for detailed information on weapons production, the salaries and status of free and enslaved employees, and other financial records to reveal an interesting, distinctive story of technological innovation and industrialization in South Carolina. George Woodward Morse, originally from New Hampshire, was a machinist and firearms innovator, who settled in Louisiana in the 1840s. He invented a reliable breechloading firearm in the mid-1850s to replace muzzleloaders that were ubiquitous throughout the world. Essential to the successful operation of any breechloader was its ammunition, and Morse perfected the first metallic, center-fire, pre-primed cartridge, his most notable contribution to the development of modern firearms. The US War Department tested Morse rifles and cartridges prior to the beginning of the Civil War and contracted with the inventor to produce the weapons at Harpers Ferry Armory. However, when the war began, Morse, a slave-holding plantation owner, determined that he could sell more of his guns in the South. The South Carolina State Military Works originally designed to cast cannon, produced Morse’s carbine and modified muskets, brass cartridges, cartridge boxes, and other military accoutrements. The armory ultimately produced only about 1,350 Morse firearms. For the next twenty years, Morse sought to regain his legacy as the inventor of the center-fire brass cartridges that are today standard ammunition for military and sporting firearms. “Does justice to one of the greatest stories in American firearms history. If George Woodward Morse had not sided with the Confederacy, his name might be as famous today as Colt or Winchester.” —Gordon L. Jones, Atlanta History Center “Excellent and well-researched.” —Patrick McCawley, South Carolina Department of Archives and History “For connoisseurs and scholars of military history (especially Civil War), history of technology, or Southern/South Carolina history, this is a must-read and reference volume pertaining to a previously little-known aspect of the nineteenth century that had a far-reaching impact in the manner wars would be fought by soldiers decades later.” —Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston
Author | : Sir James Emerson Tennent |
Publisher | : London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Artillery |
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Author | : Charles Edward Chapel |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2012-05-24 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0486163067 |
DIVDramatic story of shoulder arms, hand guns, and other weapons also describes the men who used them. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of the Kentucky and Sharps rifle, Colt revolver, and much more. 499 black-and-white illustrations. /div
Author | : William A. Albaugh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
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Author | : Katherine McLean Brevard |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Firearms |
ISBN | : 0756543134 |
When the Chinese invented gunpowder in 850, their explosive invention became the basis for almost every weapon used in war. It radically changed warfare all over the world, affecting the way battles were fought throughout the Middle Ages. When guns were invented five centuries later, the world was again transformed. Explosive weaponry was available to the individual, creating a new class of soldier and giving birth to the modern army.
Author | : William A. Albaugh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : William W. Johnstone |
Publisher | : Pinnacle Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-02-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0786044357 |
FIRST RULE OF JOHNSTONE COUNTRY: TRUST NO ONE No one knows the dangers of driving a stagecoach better than Red Ryan. Especially when the passenger’s a dead man, the payoff’s a gold mine, and the last stop is death . . . SECOND RULE: WATCH YOUR BACK Red Ryan should’ve known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town—in a thunder storm—and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot—and her gorgeous crew of former saloon girls. Luna asks the boys to help them find the Lucky Cuss Gold Mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man’s pocket. Buttons can’t refuse a pretty lady—or the lure of gold. But Red has a feeling they’re playing with fire. Especially when the map leads them straight into crossfire of a ferocious range war, a 400-pound load of pure evil known as Papa Mace Rathmore—and his backwoods clan of sadistic, kill-crazy hillbillies . . . Live Free. Read Hard.
Author | : Carl P. Russell |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2005-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486436810 |
This thoroughly documented reference identifies the guns used in America during eastern settlement and westward expansion. Covering weapons in use from colonial times through the first half of the nineteenth century, the very readable account describes traders, trappers, soldiers, and Native Americans who made, sold, and used weapons. Accompanying the survey of military arms, small cannon, and other accessories are rare illustrations of everything from antique muskets to bullet molds — all clearly identified.