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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: “The Art and Mystery of a Gunsmith”
Chapter 1: The American System
Chapter 2: The Crystal Palace
Chapter 3: “Scattering Our Guns”
Chapter 4: “More Wonderful Than Practical”
Chapter 5: Model 1866
Chapter 6: “Gun Men” and the “Oriental Lecturer”
Chapter 7: “Spirit Guns”
Chapter 8: “The Unhallowed Trade”
Chapter 9: The “Moral Effect” of a Winchester
Chapter 10: Balancing the Ledger
Chapter 11: Summer Land
Chapter 12: The Gun Industry’s Visible Hand
Chapter 13: Learning to Love the Gun
Chapter 14: Mystery House
Chapter 15: “Grotesque, Yet Magnificent”
Chapter 16: Overbuilding
Chapter 17: The Soul of the “Gun Crank”
Chapter 18: King of Infinite Space
Chapter 19: The West That Won the Gun
Chapter 20: “Merchants of Death”
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Archives
Notes
Index
About the Author
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