George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized.
In this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of foot soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and spanning from the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of the rifle and its place in American culture.
- ISBN10 0440338093
- ISBN13 9780440338093
- Publish Date 21 October 2008 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Delacorte Press
- Format eBook
- Language English