218 pages, about 11" x 8", glossy soft-cover in full color. New color printing with permission of the publisher Printed on high quality 24# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated.

Contents - Index:

• Pages: 218

Number One -

North and Savage Longarms
Barrel Making - 15th through 19th Century
Automatic Priming Systems

Number Two -

Lindner Carbines of the Civil War
The First Starrs of the Union Arkansas
That Special Gun
Bullet Making During the American Revolution

Number Three -

Metropolitan Revolvers
Who Was William A. Thornton?
Myron Moses Breechloaders
Paterson Shotguns

Number Four -

Whaling Guns
Historic Prescott Navy Revolvers
William Schneider and His Airgun Masterpiece

Number Five -

The Colt System of Manufacture in the Percussion Period
Prescott’s Other Revolvers
Schenck’s Hair Trigger Conversion

Number Six -

Shawk and McLanahan Navy Revolvers
A Rigby Knuckleduster?
More on the Walker
A Confederate Colt - the C.L.Dragoon

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