About the Author

Hal Herring is a contributing editor at Field and Stream. His fiction, journalism, and essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and the Economist. He lives in Augusta, Montana.

Reviews

As Hal Herring says in his Preface, "America was a nation born yelling, and in a cloud of black powder smoke." We have always been addicted to mayhem (albeit from a safe distance), and the most fascinating mayhem of all was that waged in the Old West. This is the story of 12 guns of that time and the famous and infamous people who used them, and if you can start Chapter One and put the book down before you reach at least Chapter Six, see a doctor. Great stuff from someone who is both a historian and a masterful storyteller.--Dave Petzal, Deputy Editor, "Field & Stream"