The Plains Rifle

Brown cloth boards w/ gilt titling to spine and gilt titling w/ vignette to cover. Price clipped photo DJ lightly soiled/rubbed w/ light tears/chipping to edges and fold-overs. Fr cover exhibits a vertical line of gilt smudging otherwise, clean and bright w/ square corners, top lightly bumped. Text block square, tight, clean, and unmarked throughout w/ a hint of dusting/soiling to page ends. Presumed 1st ed (no later prntgs noted), 171 pps incl's b/w illus's and photos, index, Ray Riling seal tipped-in to back pastedown. A handsome copy of a reference with an overview of the Pennsylvania, Tennessee, English, Military, St Louis, and Plains rifles along with the gunsmiths who made them and the notable figures who used them. Still of one of the first and one of the best references for the "Hawken" and "Mountain" muzzle loading rifles prominent during the mountain mand and fur trade era.