Speaking of the Savage
Several years ago, I was up on the Iron Range in Minnesota, in Grand Rapids. This is where the kin on my side of the family live, and one...
High Standard American history and the Derringer
Bat Masterson. Doc Holliday. Wild Bill Hickok. John Wilkes Booth. All four are names familiar to anyone with even a passing...
Bringing home the facts on The Nomad
Author’s 1968 Browning Nomad .22 Long Rifle semi-automatic pistol. As I was growing up our family had a number of .22 caliber handguns,...
A 98-year-old soldier deserves a little TLC
Author with his partly sporterized Eddystone .30-’06. What do flaming bombs, a dog’s hind leg, and a locomotive company have in common?...
Belle Starr: Bandit Queen
After nine months of imprisonment for horse stealing, Belle Starr — also known as “the Bandit Queen” — was once again a free woman. As...
My oldest handgun
Carroll, Iowa Author’s Harrington & Richardson Auto-ejecting Model 2, .38 S&W caliber revolver, manufactured circa 1892. In this column,...