Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather by Charles G Worman

Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather by Charles G Worman

The gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-Mississippi West. It provided food for the cooking pot as well as protection against two- or four-legged marauders. As the century progressed, firearms also provided various forms of recreation for both men and women, primarily target and competition shooting. Of course the employment of the gun, whether for good or evil, depended upon the user. The men and women who lived the nineteenth-century western experience sometimes described in detail the role firearms played in their lives. Such accounts included a trapper in the 1830s, a woman crossing the plains by wagon in the 1850s, a drover (cowboy in modern terminology) enduring the dangers of a long cattle drive, a professional hunter engaged in the slaughter of the once seemingly endless herds of bison, or a soldier campaigning against American Indians. Each account adds to our knowledge of firearms and our awareness of the struggle faced by those who were a part of the western experience. Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather describes the guns impact on the lives of those in the Westmen and women, whites and American Indiansusing their own words to tell that story wherever possible.

Charles G. is a well-known author. Worman worked for the National Museum of the United States for more than three decades.

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ISBN 13	9780826335937
ISBN 10	0826335934
Title	Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather
Author	Charles G Worman
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of New Mexico Press
Year published	2005-12-30
Number of pages	522
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