Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them

Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them

John Bainbridge, Jr.'s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons.

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