American Indian Firearms Guide 1600-1920 Trading Rifles

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For Trade and Treaty: Firearms of the American Indians, 1600-1920 by: Ryan R. Gale
ISBN:
9780976579755
Book Title:
For Trade and Treaty: Firearms of the American Indians, 1600-1920
Author:
Ryan R. Gale
Binding:
Soft Cover
Copyright:
2010
Pages:
200
Size:
11 x 8.375 in
Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry.
Collector Bookstore Notes:
This reference is is the most comprehensive work on the subject of Native American firearms to date. It includes detailed, color photographs of dozens of French, English, American and Belgian made fowling guns, northwest guns, trade rifles and shotguns.
Publishers Description:
For Trade and Treaty by author Ryan R. Gale is the most comprehensive work on the subject of Native American firearms to date. Filled with hundreds of full color images of dozens of original northwest guns, trade fusils, and treaty guns, this book's wide 11" landscape format allows images up to 22" across the gutter. This book also contains new research, numerous fur trade and government invoices, inventories and other firearm records never before published.
Chapters include:
History
Markings
Proofing
Repairs
Evolution
The Dutch
Old and New France
The British Colonies
Hudson's Bay Company
North West Company
X.Y. Company
American Fur Company
Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co.
British Government Gift Guns
United States Trade and Treaty Guns
Ammunition and Accouterments
Includes detailed, color photographs of dozens of French, English, American and Belgian made fowling guns, northwest guns, trade rifles and shotguns from collections throughout the United States and Canada.
Learn how these unique firearms were made, decorated, proofed, distributed, repaired and modified. Many of these guns have never been published.
New research reveals never before published purchase orders, invoices and inventories of the French, British and American governments and the major fur companies such as the Hudson's Bay Co., North West Co., X.Y. Co., American Fur Co. and Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co. Learn who made the firearms traded and given to the Native Americans, in what numbers and various lengths and calibers.
A must-have for the historic gun builder, each firearm show-cased includes detailed dimensions, bore sizes, and locations of important details are documented and included for every gun. Close-up views of the marks and small details are explained, providing valuable insights. The author also shows counterfeit marks used by the competing fur trade companies to gain advantage.
Trade guns include fowling guns, northwest guns, trade rifles, single and double shotguns from such famous makers as Jacob Dickert, Henry Leman, Edward K. Tryon, Henry Deringer, J.J. Henry, Thomas Barnett, Benjamin Willets, Robert Wilson, Parker Field & Co., Robert Wheeler and William Chance & Son to name a few. Surplus military guns were also offered in trade.
Period records also reveal information about the vast quantities of ammunition and accouterments, powder horns, knives, jags, and ball molds that were traded.
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