GUN BARONS: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them

Guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in U.S. history, from western expansion to the 1840s, through the Civil War, and into the dawn of the Gilded Age. Photos.