2008

SPRING

TEXAS GUN COLLECTORS, COLLECTIONS, and COLLECTING - An Ongoing Series
* TGCA MEMBER PROFILE - MIKE CLARK  
by Lynn Chenault
Another in a series of profiles of members who have served the association long and well.

A CAPTURED CONFEDERATE BOWIE
by Lloyd Jackson
The account of how a dying Confederat soldier surrendered to a Union soldier at the Battle of Bull Run, 21 July 1861.

BOWIE KNIVES from the collection of Bob Berryman
by Frank Graves
A well discussion of one man's collection of Bowies Knives including horsehead pommel knives, alligator and half horse/half alligator knives, and push daggers.

THE COWBOY UTILITY KNIFE
by by Bill Welch
Far from the exotic Bowie's usually gracing advanced collections, we now turn to the humble cowboy's utility knife, an everyday tool for a hard working man.

WHAT IS A BOWIE KNIFE?
by Jason Baldwin
"My response to 'What is a Bowie Knife?' used to be...just about any knife made prior to 1880, could be considered, and probably at one point in its life, referred to as a Bowie Knife."  Today?  Well just read on folks.

LAMENTATIONS - or guns that I should have kept.
by Chet Downs
Two found relics with real stories to tell get away from this collector ~ much to his regret today.

THE MIDDLETON BROTHERS - Retirement of The Last Sheffield Cutlery Family
by David Johnstone
From the early 1800's to 2007, the Middletons were involved in the Sheffield cutlery industry, crafting surgical knives and other instruments, grinding blades for the major Sheffield Bowie Knife makers in they heyday of such. Much later in more modern times, Middleton Brothers turned its hand to Bowies.

BOOK REVIEW
Former TGCA President Roger Muckerheide reviews two new books:
    * Remington's First Revolvers - The Remington Beals .31 Caliber Revolvers by Charles E. Schif
    * Firearms in American History _ A Guide for Writers, Curators, and General Readers
        by Charles G. Worman

Columnist for The Gun Report, Dick Salzer reviews the important new reference
     * THE HISTORY AND IDENTIFICATION OF COLT ACCOUTREMENTS 1834 - 1911: Paterson to Automatic
          by Robin J. Rapley
    

GUNS AND LEATHER BY MAIL
by Donald M. Yena
A delightful piece by well-known Texas collector and Western artist Don Yena, reminds us all that many of the guns we cherish today, and their associated leather work, were ordered from the catalogs of such ordinary merchants as Sears Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co.

BOOK REVIEW
Another couple of insightful reviews from Roger Muckerheide:
     * Smith & Wesson American Model: In U.S. and Foreign Service
          by Charles W. Pate
     * The Story of Benjamin Tyler Henry and His Famed Repeating
          Rifle by Les Quick

A GATHERING OF PATERSONS
by Frank Graves
This is a brief account of the Paterson exhibit featured at the Spring 2008 show of the Texas Gun Collectors Association, and is accompanied by by a wonderful pictorial of most of the forty-one guns, tools and accoutrements exhibited. Photographs by Susan Zarate.

DOUBLE HEADER DOUBLE TROUBLE
by Bill and Lynda Grieves
Another in a series of articles by this couple on the (usually) small and (definitely) unusual firearms encountered in the search to expand their collection. The pistol featured in this text is a single barreled, double breech derringer invented by one Samuel Perry around about 1864. Nicknamed the Double Header, the barrel which rotated in its length, could be loaded at either end with a .44 calibre cartridge.

TEXAS GUN COLLECTORS, COLLECTIONS, and COLLECTING - An Ongoing Series
* TGCA MEMBER PROFILE - JOHN GANGEL  
by Lynn Chenault
Another in a series of profiles of members who have served the association long and well.