The Broken Gun
The Broken Gun

Author: Louis L'Amour

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2004-10-26

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0553898949

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Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with twenty-five other men and four thousand head of cattle, vanished en route to Arizona. When writer and historian Dan Sheridan is invited to the missing brothers’ ranch by its current owner, he jumps at the chance. The visit fits right in with his plan to solve the century-old mystery—but it turns out that his host isn’t a fan of books, writers, or people who don’t mind their own business. Soon Dan is living the dangers of the Old West firsthand—tracked through the savage wilderness by vicious killers straight out of the most violent pages of his stories. However, his enemies have made one serious mistake: Sheridan is no pencil-pushing greenhorn, and killing him won’t be as easy as they think.

The Broken Gun
The Broken Gun

Author: Louis L'Amour

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2011-01-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0307737624

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The brutal slayings of the Alverez brothers follow an announcement by western fiction writer Dan Sheridan that he is investigating the strange disappearance of twenty men and four thousand head of cattle ninety years early.

GUN DOGS
GUN DOGS

Author: Jamie Wallis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-01-29

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1291868372

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You have been charged with treason against the Empire and placed on death row. The Emperor offers you a choice: die a slow and humiliating death or serve as a Gun Dog, a soldier assigned impossible missions and tethered by a magical collar. The collar will choke you to death if you disobey your mission orders. You will be sent where an army cannot go and an angel would fear to tread. You are expendable. You are a gun Dog! Gun Dogs is the first instalment in a series of gamebooks, featuring the artwork of Gary Chalk. The master is back!

A Philosophy of Gun Violence
A Philosophy of Gun Violence

Author: Alan J. Reid

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-08-20

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 3031110048

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This book uses a philosophy of technology to demonstrate that guns are predisposed for an intentional use, making them inherently non-neutral artifacts. This argument rejects the often-cited value neutral thesis and instrumentalist view that “guns don’t kill people; people kill people”, and instead, explains the lethality of the gun through the lenses of affordance theory, behavioral design, and choice architecture. Ultimately, this book proposes an ethical and value-sensitive model for gun reform, which embodies the perspective of French philosopher Bruno Latour, who said, “You are different with a gun in your hand; the gun is different with you holding it.”

American Beginnings
American Beginnings

Author: Emerson W. Baker

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780803245549

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This illustrated collection of essays examines early Native American contact with European explorers, fishermen, and traders in “Norumbega,” the sixteenth-century name of the Atlantic coast of New England near the Penobscot River in Maine. This coast was the focus of several French and English voyagers seeking a northwest passage and other avenues to riches and treasure. A tacit division gradually emerged: the French concentrated on the region north of the Penobscot and the English on the lands to the south. The 100 illustrations in this book come largely from the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine and include many rare early maps (1500–1800). Ten are reproduced in full color.

The Gun Makers of Birmingham, 1660-1960
The Gun Makers of Birmingham, 1660-1960

Author: Joseph McKenna

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-03-05

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1476683786

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Tracing the history and development of gun-making in Birmingham, England--for many years a center of the world's firearms industry--this book covers innovations in design and manufacture of both military and sporting arms from 1660 through 1960. The city is perhaps best known for mass-producing some of the most battle-tested weapons in history, including the Brown Bess musket, the Webley revolver and the Lee-Enfield rifle. Yet Birmingham's gun-makers have carried on a centuries-long tradition of crafting high quality hand-made sporting guns.