The Gunsmith 346

The Gunsmith 346
Author: J. R. Roberts
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2010-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101443642

The GUNSMITH learns that it's in the way that you use it... Clint Adams is already known for his talent with a gun, but Arizona rancher Jerry Sacks thinks that Clint's dead-eye skills make him the perfect man to play for him in a high-stakes pool game in Tucson. Now the Gunsmith is going to have to make some serious trick shots if he wants to avoid getting racked.

Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time

Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time
Author: Franz Babinger
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1978
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780691010786

One of the most important figures in Ottoman history, Mehmed was the architect of victories that inspired fear throughout Europe and contributed to an image of the Turk prevalent in Western art and literature for many years. From the Western viewpoint, Mehmed was seen as the man who gave the death blow to Byzantium, destroying the last vestige of the Eastern Roman Empire. Not surprisingly, the Turks regard him as the greatest of all sultans, a figure unparalleled in the history of the world for military prowess, statecraft and patronage of the arts and sciences.

The Pennsylvania-Kentucky Rifle

The Pennsylvania-Kentucky Rifle
Author: Henry J. Kauffman
Publisher: Masthof Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 188329455X

Read about the rifle that was made in America by gunsmiths who migrated to Lancaster Co., Pa., from central Europe in the first half of the 18th century. This intensive study and exacting research by Kauffman has brought to light a tremendous amount of information on America's first great rifle. First printed in 1960, this book has an extensive listing of gunsmiths and the stylized work of the makers. Various rifles are identified with many photos and sketches and documentary data. (374pp. illus. index. Masthof Press, 2005 reprint.)

American Rifle

American Rifle
Author: Alexander Rose
Publisher: Delta
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0553384384

George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. In this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of foot soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and spanning from the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of the rifle and its place in American culture.