"Here is the story of the most important Remington firearms, told by an expert in the field ... [the author] is an able historian, particularly knowledgeable in the field of arms. He was for a number of years curator of the Museum Laboratory of the National Park Service as well as chief of the Service's historical investigations branch and its staff historian. He has been advisor on military matters to Plimoth Plantation and to Colonial Williamsburg, honorary curator of edged weapons of the West Point Museum, and ... consultant on weapons to the Henry Ford Museum ..."--Inside flaps

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