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61. W. W. Greener, The Gun and Its Development, 9th ed. (Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2002), pp. 112–13; D. Westwood, Rifles: An Illustrated History of Their Impact (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2005), pp. 65–66. Alternatively, Forsyth may have stayed in the gun-making business in London until 1852, but no one seems quite sure. See P. B. Sharpe, The Rifle in America, 3d ed. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), p. 18.
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62. “Joshua Shaw, Artist and Inventor: The Early History of the Copper Percussion Cap,” Scientific American, August 7, 1869; also Sharpe, Rifle in America, pp. 19–20.
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63. Westwood, Rifles, p. 68; Sharpe, Rifle in America, p. 19.
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64. Greener, Gun and Its Development, p. 117.
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65. Westwood, Rifles, p. 69.
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66. Ibid., pp. 69–70.
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67. See Bomford to Hall, September 3, 1836, in Huntington, Hall’s Breechloaders, p. 283.
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68. On Lucas’s background and politics, see Smith, Harpers Ferry, pp. 258–62.
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69. Quoted in Huntington, Hall’s Breechloaders, p. 79.
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70. Statira Hall to George Talcott, October 7, 1840; John Hall to Talcott, October 7, 1840; both in Huntington, Hall’s Breechloaders, p. 291.
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71. See Ward, Andrew Jackson, pp. 13–14. The Library of Congress has an 1815 copy of the broadside.
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72. N. M. Ludlow, Dramatic Life As I Found It . . . (St. Louis: G. I. Jones & Co., 1880), pp. 237–38.
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73. J. F. Cooper, The Leatherstocking Tales, ed. B. Nevius (New York: Library of America, 1985), pp. 2:870–81.
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74. Cooper, Leatherstocking Tales, pp. 1:560, 567–68, 603.
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75. F. Somkin, Unquiet Eagle: Memory and Desire in the Idea of American Freedom, 1815–1860 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1967), p. 4.
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76. London and Westminster Review, 32, no. 1 (1832), p. 139.
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77. Quoted in M. J. Heale, “The Role of the Frontier in Jacksonian Politics: David Crockett and the Myth of the Self-made Man,” Western Historical Quarterly 4, no. 4 (1973), p. 405.
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78. D. Crockett, Life of Col. David Crockett written by himself . . . (Philadelphia: A.A. Evans, 1860), pp. 224, 270; C. G. Loomis, “Davy Crockett Visits Boston,” New England Quarterly 20, no. 3 (1947), pp. 396–400; B. Ball, “The Most Famous Rifle of Texas! Recreating Colonel Crockett’s Rifle at the Battle of the Alamo,” Guns Magazine, January 2004.
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Chapter 4
1. “The Volcanic Repeating Rifle,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, October 9, 1858, reprinted in J. E. Dizard, R. M. Muth, and S. P. Andrews Jr., eds., Guns in America: A Reader (New York: New York University Press, 1999), p. 48.
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2. Author’s count, using table “Classified List of Breech-Loading Fire-arms Patented in the United States,” in E. H. Knight, Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary, 3 vols. (New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1877) pp. 1:855–60.
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3. Quoted in M. R. Smith, “Army Ordnance and the ‘American System’ of Manufacturing, 1815–1861,” in M. R. Smith, ed., Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985), p. 40.
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4. Hence the business world’s motley collection of martial metaphors: all those corporate raiders, hostile takeovers, bidding wars, boardroom battles, target demographics, entrenched managements, scorched-earth defenses, bullet points, trade barriers, firing of employees, union battle lines, decisive leadership, the bleeding of red ink, marginal losses, industrial espionage, vulnerable or embattled companies, stock-price collapses, sneak attacks, morale-building exercises. Interestingly, the flow has in recent years run in the opposite direction: the army has begun to draw lessons from the business sector. According to a story in Time magazine, on the bookshelves “of nearly every Army office in the Pentagon,