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guns of the american west
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 and gunmen who made the wild west wild . beginning with the early western expansion and the california gold rush guns of the american west takes you through the development of americas most legendary handguns rifles and shotguns and the roles they played in our nations history . as the civil war erupts the author follows the politics of a country divided and how north and south chose to arm their soldiers . in the aftermath of this great conflagration adler takes you step by step through the evolution of loose powder cap and ball revolvers rifles and shotguns to the conversion to self contained metallic cartridges and the sweeping changes that resulted in firearms design . with a nation intent on its belief in manifest destiny the author follows legendary lawmen soldiers and outlaws as america moves west in the 1870s and 1880s .