04036cam a2200877 4500 535966920 TxGeo 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780440338093 0440338093 B001IAE250 Amazon 2c165b1d-9e57-4fe5-8f6e-7f3516a6beac OverDrive (Reserve ID) 157143 157143 157143 167981 OverDrive (Product ID) TxGeo Rose, Alexander. American Rifle [Libby] : A Biography. Random House Publishing Group, 2008. us history. War. weapon. firearms. gun. armor. american history. army. World History. Military. weapons. battles. swords. Military History. History. knives. antique books. antiques. guns. Winchester. flea market. gifts for dad. history books. history of guns. historical books. gifts for history buffs. fathers day gifts. military history books. antiques and collectibles. dad gifts. history gifts. history of weapons. gun books. history buff gifts. history teacher gifts. gun book. history coffee table books. gun gifts for men. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4571kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Antiques. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized.<br /> <br /> Now, in this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and encompassing the Revolution to the present day, <b>American Rifle</b> is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of this most essential firearm and its place in American culture.<br /> <br /> In the eighteenth century American soldiers discovered that they no longer had to fight in Europe’s time-honored way. With the evolution of the famed “Kentucky” Rifle—a weapon slow to load but devastatingly accurate in the hands of a master—a new era of warfare dawned, heralding the birth of the American individualist in... Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-16 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/2C1/65B/1D/AmericanRifleABiography9780440338093.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2C165B1D-9E57-4FE5-8F6E-7F3516A6BEAC&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/2C1/65B/1D/AmericanRifleABiography9780440338093.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2C165B1D-9E57-4FE5-8F6E-7F3516A6BEAC&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/2C1/65B/1D/AmericanRifleABiography9780440338093.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2C165B1D-9E57-4FE5-8F6E-7F3516A6BEAC&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) QS5