The gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the
exploration and settlement of the trans-Mississippi West. It
provided food for the cooking pot as well as protection against
two- or four-legged marauders. As the century progressed, firearms
also provided various forms of recreation for both men and women,
primarily target and competition shooting.
Of course the employment of the gun, whether for good or evil,
depended upon the user. The men and women who lived the
nineteenth-century western experience sometimes described in detail
the role firearms played in their lives. Such accounts included a
trapper in the 1830s, a woman crossing the plains by wagon in the
1850s, a drover (cowboy in modern terminology) enduring the dangers
of a long cattle drive, a professional hunter engaged in the
slaughter of the once seemingly endless herds of bison, or a
soldier campaigning against American Indians.
Each account adds to our knowledge of firearms and our awareness
of the struggle faced by those who were a part of the western
experience. "Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather" describes the guns impact
on the lives of those in the Westmen and women, whites and American
Indiansusing their own words to tell that story wherever
possible.
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