Texas Smoke: Muzzle-Loaders on the Frontier

by C.F. Eckhardt

No one has collected more Texas tales, or told them better, than C. F. Eckhardt. His columns and collected yarns have enriched Texas readers for decades. Yet his love of Texana and the Texas frontier has never been more evident than in his latest work on Texas firearms before the American Civil War.From the terrifying arquebuses shouldered by the earliest Spanish explorers to the muzzle-loaders that reigned until 1860, when the first cartridges were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896724395
• ISBN13: 9780896724396
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"