Hardcover, dark brown cloth cover, with dust jacket, entitled "Hawken Rifles - The Mountain Man's Choice" by John D. Baird, copyrighted by the author in 1968, second printing in 1971, published by The Buckskin Press of Chaska, Minnesota, ISBN 0-912420-00-6. The book begins with a Table of Contents, followed by an Overleaf, an Introduction, a Preface, and a Chronological Record of Events Connected with Hawken Shop. It contains fifteen chapters: 1 - The Hawken Customer; 2 - Jacob and Samuel Hawken, St. Louis; 3 - Early Hawken Rifles; 4 - Full Stock Hawken Rifles; 5 - Mariano Modena Rifle; 6 - Engraved Hawken Rifles; 7 - Hoffman and Campbell, A Hawken Subsidiary; 8 - Hawken Rifles for the Mountain Man; 9 - The Slant Breech Hawken; 10 - Firearms Other Than "Mountain Rifles"; 11 - Spencer Hawken Conversions; 12 - J.P. Gemmer, Successor to the Hawkens; 13 - Identifying and Dating Hawken Rifles; 14 - Modern Hawken Replicas; 15 - Miscellany. It encompasses 136 black and white plates placed throughout the book, illustrating photographs of the various rifles and their users, plus line drawings of an assortment of rifle parts, complemented by descriptive text. It concludes with a two page Index. The book contains 116 pages, printed in black ink, on a white paper stock, measuring 220 mm (w) x 285 mm (h) x 15 mm (d). It exhibits foxing along the top and sides of the pages, in addition to extensive tape repair on page 95-96 and soiling on the dust jacket. Fine.
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