IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This .54 caliber smoothbore ...

BOZEMAN — In this age of easy access to an enormous variety of information via the internet, more knowledge may not always be a good thing for creators of historic firearms. “I think we overbuild ...

During the War of 1812, a small group of teenagers successfully helped hold off 10,000 British soldiers at a critical battle in upstate New York. To acknowledge their gallantry, for the first and only ...

"A Revolution in Arms" sweeps through its first 60 pages tracing the evolution of arms from the slingshot David used to fell Goliath to the 12th-century German "handgonne" and Spanish "mosquete" to ...

In the hands of men like Boone, Kenton, and Wetzel, the flintlock rifle helped shape North America as we know it today. Flintlock rifles won our War of Independence and went west with Lewis and Clark.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This .50 caliber breech-loading ...