Armed America : the remarkable story of how and why guns became as American as apple pie / Clayton E. Cramer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cramer, Clayton E.
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tenn. : Nelson Current, 2006.
Subjects:
Firearms ownership > United States > History.
Physical Description:xx, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Remarkable story of how and why guns became as American as apple pie.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Guns in American history
  • Colonial America
  • A lonely outpost : militias in colonial America
  • Threatening shadows : guns in the hands of the other
  • Uneasy alliances : guns and Indians
  • Guns in official records and personal narrative
  • Intent to kill : man against man and man against nature
  • The shot heard 'round the world
  • Guns in revolutionary New England
  • Guns in the revolutionary middle colonies
  • Guns in the revolutionary South
  • Guns in the Continental Army & revolutionary militias
  • The early Republic
  • Militias in the early Republic
  • Ammunition in the early Republic
  • Pistols in the early Republic
  • Guns and sport in the early Republic
  • Guns and violence in the early Republic
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: firearms glossary.