From the Model 1866 .44-40 Chief Joseph famously surrendered to General Miles (now gathering dust in a museum in Fort Benton) to Buffalo Bill’s .50 caliber breechloading needlegun nicknamed
Lucretia Borgia, a good portion of the actual guns that were once in the hands of the heroes and villains of the old West are still in existence, scattered around in a dozen different
museums across the country. Although there are a host of titles that take advantage of our endless curiosity about western firearms (it’s a cottage industry unto itself), there is no single
book that traces the natural history of the individual guns. Famous Firearms follows the life stories of twelve of the actual pistols, rifles, and shotguns that were so instrumental in
shaping our western mythology, using them as entrees into the lives of the shootists themselves. The end result is a vivid portrait of twelve famous western characters, paired with the guns
they used to make themselves famous and infamous.
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The Winchester: An American Icon
$1,305 -
Judge Dredd 1: Titan
$700 -
The Fuse 3: Perihelion
$525 -
Bad Machinery 5: The Case of the Fire Inside
$700 -
The Black Dahlia
$1,050 -
Cutting Edge: Japanese Swords in the British Museum
$1,048 -
Morning Glories 10: Expulsion
$525 -
Blue Book of Modern Black Powder Arms
$873 -
Dark Night: A True Batman Story
$805 -
Billy Budd, KGB
$698 -
Nick Travers 1: Last Fair Deal Gone Down
$350 -
The Sword: Myth & Reality: Technology, History, Fighting, Forging, Movie Swords
$1,750 -
Palmiotti & Brady’s the Big Con Job
$700 -
The Tithe 2
$525 -
Les Paras Allemands: Batailles, Combats, Documents Et Insignes
$5,005 -
Neal Adams’ Blood 1
$525 -
Heer & SS Visor Caps & Uniforms
$2,765 -
The Black Hood 2
$525 -
Dark Corridor: The Complete Series
$525 -
Blake & Mortimer 22: Professor Sato’s Three Formulae
$488