1998
  SPRING
ONE OF THE MOST ORNATE AMERICANS EVER MADE 
by Bryan Bossier
Cover Story. This Smith & Wesson Model 3 American, Second model was one of a number of guns sent by the factory to Europe in 1872 for exhibition at Paris, Moscow and Vienna. Roy Jinks has said of this gun that "It is certainly one of the treasures of American artistry in metal."

A MYSTERY LADY'S CHRISTMAS PISTOL   
by (no accreditation ~ but we know it was Roger Muckerheide)
A delightful little inscribed First Model, Third Issue revolver presents its new owner with a funny little puzzle.

JOHN WESLEY HARDIN & CHARLIE WEBB   
by C.B. Wilson
An account of the notorious bad man's twenty-first birthday on which he killed Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb.

THE SCHOFIELD SMITH & WESSON:
The Other Cavalry Revolver  
by Charles W. Pate
A treatise on the development of the fames Schofield variation of Smith & Wesson's No.3 American  revolver, and its use in military service.

THE SMITH & WESSON AMERICANS of the Nashville Police   
by Lloyd N. Jackson
An impassioned plea to the City Council in post Civil War Nashville results in the issue of the Smith & Wesson No.3 American to the city's police form.

THE COLONEL ROOSEVELT S&W New Model Number Three  
by Jim Supica
Research is on going into the history of this fine Smith & Wesson American, shipped from the factory to Colonel Roosevelt on May 12, 1898.
  FALL
MERWIN HULBERT'S FANTASTIC AUTOMATIC REVOLVER   
by Dick Salzer
The author traces the development of the Merwin Hulbert line of revolvers, manufactured by Hopkins and Allen, from the very early days.

M&H THIRD MODEL FRONTIER ARMY DA with Shoulder Stock    presented by Jerry Teesdale

A BRIEF HISTOGRAPHY OF MERWIN, HULBERT & CO. CLASSIFICATION   
by Dick Johnson
A discussion on the alternative system of classifying Merwin Hulbert revolvers introduced by Jerald  Teesdale to that devised by Art Phelps, "The Merwin Hulbert Man."

THE BATTLE OF PACKSADDLE MOUNTAIN   
by Frank D. Durrum, Jr.
"Misfit Cowboy Becomes Hero" in the last major Indian fight in central Texas.

M-H OUTLINE   
by Jerald T. Teesdale
A system to catalog the primary varieties of Merwin, Hulbert & Co. revolvers.

FIRST TIME OUT OF THE WOODS for Colt's SAA s/n 26262  
by David W. Lumbert
Another one discovered and liberated.

WYOMING SHERIFF FRANK BLACKBURN   
by Bill Welch, Esq.
Research on a .45 caliber short barreled Colt single action brings us to the colorful English born man who was to become a Wyoming sheriff who rode into Cody from Canada in 1900.