Colonial Frontier Guns by T.M. Hamilton

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Colonial Frontier Guns
by T.M. Hamilton

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This large format edition will be of special interest to trade gun enthusiasts. It shows 97 illustrations of early guns, Tulle hunting guns, plan drawings and detailed photo views of individual components. Museum quality firearms, archaeological remains of gun components and facsimile reproductions of original documents are used to explain the role of these guns on the early frontier. Soft bound 9 x 12" " format, with 176 pages.

The Table of Contents includes the following:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Chronological Outline of the American Fur Trade
Supplies Shipped in 1701 to Fort Biloxy: translated by Roy T. Huntington
Guns on the Colonial Frontier

Dutch
French
English

A Trade Gun of the 1700's: by Lee Burke
An 18th Century Chief's Trade Fusil By Richard Wilson, London: by Walter O'Connor
Webber's Gun: by John W. Evans
Gunsmithing on the Colonial Frontier
Barrels, Balls, and Shot
The Gunflint in North America
The Geology of the Gun Spall: by K.O. Emery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
History of English Gunflints: by Seymor de Lotbiniere, Brandon, England
How English and French Gunflints were made: by Alfred Barnes, translated by Robert and Carol Breazeal Vernon
Appendices
Tables

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