A collector of early American firearms and a student of gun lore for over forty years, author Rogers traces the history of American guns from S.F. Hawkins, inventor of the Kentucky rifle, through Samuel Colt, Smith and Wesson, Remington, Marcellus Hartley, Christian Sharps, Daniel Nippes, and other master gunsmiths. DJ, in mylar, is chipped in a couple of places but otherwise in good condition.