Dennis Adler, award-winning author and photographer, and contributing editor to Guns of the Old West magazine, has woven together enthralling tales of the guns

This is the second volume of a two-part encyclopedic reference to firearms in the 19th-century American West, offering both technical information and historical

Dramatic story of shoulder arms, hand guns, and other weapons also describes the men who used them. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of the Kentucky and

Covering a wide range of firearms, from the smallest pistol to the rifles of the buffalo hunters used by plainsmen and settlers, gamblers and engineers, Native

The many roles played by guns in the old West with personal accounts by many early settlers and hundreds of photos.