An unusual history of firearms in America for the gun collector's library. Chapters include: the Kentucky Rifle, the Shut-eye Hunter 1778, the plains rifle, Mojave massacre 1827, the cap & ball Colt, John Cremony's ride 1850, the buffalo gun, the Freeze-out Bunch 1862, the repeating rifle, Smoke Wagon Medicine 1868, the broken medicine of Roman Nose 1868, the buffalo wallow 1874, the Peacemaker Colt, the fastest gun 1900.