Buy the book at cornellpubs.com: Suicide Specials, Donald B Webster

Donald B Webster was the Curator of History and Art at the Roberson Memorial Center in Binghamton, New York. He is the author of MILITARY BOLT ACTION RIFLES 1841-1918., American Socket Bayonets 1717-1873 as well as Suicide Specials and books on Canadian and American antique furniture. Suicide Specials is a term first written by Duncan McConnell in the American Rifleman in 1948 and applies to the cheapest-priced concealable revolver of the time starting in the decade after the Civil War. The term refers to a solid frame, single-action cartridge revolvers, spur triggers and cylinders which are rigid and freed  ...