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THE STORY OF AMERICAN HUNTING AND FIREARMS - A 400 Year History
1959224444New York: Outdoor Life - McGraw Hill Book Company 1959. Book. Illus. by Ralph Crosby Smith; Nicholas Eggenhofer; Ray Pioch;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. 172 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on brown marbled boards; small gilt pictorial and gilt lettering on the front panel; lettered in gilt on the spine; presented in a brown marbled slipcase also with a small gilt pictorial and gilt lettering on the front. Light wear at the corners of both the dustjacket and the slipcase; price intact; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with full-colour paintings by Ralph Crosby Smith and with drawings by Nicholas Eggenhofer and Ray Pioch. The Chapters are: The First American Hunters; The First Firearms in America; The Early Settlers and Their Weapons; When New York City Was a Hunter's Paradise; The Battle with the Wolves; The Kentucky Rifle; The Birth of Modern Firearms; When the Grizzly Ruled the West; The Slaughter of the Buffalo; The Golden Age of Big Game Hunting; Shooting Flying; The Good Old Days of Waterfowling; How Market Hunters Massacred the Game; The War Against the Predators; and Hunting Yesterday and Today; followed by an index. Outdoor Life - McGraw Hill Book Company Hardcover
