Description
A study of the Sharps Rifle in the Civil War and the models produced later. Numerous line drawings and illustrations. Soft cover, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2″, 158 pages.The Table of Contents includes the following:
- Chapter 1 Guns in American History
- Chapter 2 The Sharps Gun in American History
- Western Emigration
- Kansas
- John Brown
- Civil War
- Popular Revolver
- Buffalo Carbine
- Texas Ranger
- Railroad Building
- Cattle
- Custer’s Last Stand
- Chapter 3 Christian Sharps & Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company
- Chapter 4 Christian Sharps in Philadelphia
- Chapter 5 The Sharps Rifle
- Appendix
