From cover: The is the second volume of a two-part study of firearms in the nineteenth-century American West. It traces the development of the firearm from the close of the Civil War to the beginning of its modern ear, marked in 1894 by the initial army issue of a new high-velocity bolt-action rifle designed for smokeless-powder ammunition.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Military Arms -- Long Arms -- Handguns -- Part II. Civilian Arms -- Rifles -- Shotguns -- Handguns -- Part III. Indian Arms -- Postwar Indian Guns -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.