The Frontier West was nothing if not a place of opportunity. It offered an unlimited number of ways to perish including disease (a big favorite), thirst, starvation, weather, livestock, serpents, ...

There are a few basic types of pistols, but many variations. Since the first time somebody figured out that they could propel an object out the end of a crudely-fashioned iron tube by igniting a ...

In 1905, the model room at Smith & Wesson’s plant in Springfield, Mass., was astir with activity. The firm had enjoyed 50 years of progress in gunmaking and was determined to go forth in the new ...

GREEN RIVER — A revolver not often encountered was researched today through the Sweetwater County Historical Museum’s Vintage Firearms Research Program. Museum staff identified the handgun as a ...