The Rifle in America

by Philip B. Sharp

Sharp comments in the introduction to his celebrated first edition that "this country was born with a rifle in its hand." And here is the definitive chronicle of all of America's famous long guns, from the flintlocks of the Revolution . . . through the famous rifles and carbines of the Civil War . . . through the long guns that tamed our western frontier . . . to the 20th century's modern military rifles. Remember these? . . .

(The Kentucky Rifle, actually manufactured

in Pennsylvania, but called Kentucky, not

for the state, but for Daniel Boone's frontier

wilderness west of the Cumberlands . . .

(The fabled Sharps, the legendary forefather

of the Winchester, whose owners swore

they could knock the eye out of a gnat at a

thousand yards . . .

(The great Henry, carried by Union soldiers on

Sherman's march through Georgia, described

by Confederates as "that damned Yankee rifle

that is loaded on Sunday and fired all week."

More than 800 long guns are illustrated

in this massive and masterly presentation.

Only $9.95

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