| Term Paper Title | Weaponry I-Search |
| # of Words | 770 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 3.08 |
Weaponry I-Search
The advancement of weaponry, during the mid-late 1800s, greatly affected the out come and success of the American campaign to move West. America, during her move West, had superior weapons if compared to her Indian counterparts.
Before my search began, I had only little knowledge of how guns affected the move westward. Most of what I knew were lies, which Hollywood had conjured up about Indians and cowboys, as imagined this valuable knowledge didn’t help me very much. One tidbit of information which I had acquired from a book about outlaws and there guns was about a Colt peacemaker, this particular version had a six inch barrel a metal skeleton stock, to turn it into a riffle, and a factory supplied holster. Once again as imagined this piece of valuable knowledge didn’t help me very much. So my search began.
My search started off on the Internet, after searching at www.tripod .com, because I’m a web master there. I only found a few pictures of antique guns. The search continued on inside the vast computer banks at the Huntington Beach Library. Unfortunately for me another person checked out all the books on the history of guns and they were not due back to the library until the third of March. In despair I searched for “firearms” and “Outlaws of the Old West”. Finally, I found one book, which was not checked out, it was a book about outlaws. Hoping that there would be a few gun references in the book, I walked down into the labyrinths of the Huntington Beach Library. Once again the computer had fouled. I looked at the books surrounding the place where the book about Outlaws was, surprisingly there was found one book named The American West Living the Frontier Dream by James R. Arnold which had some information about the guns used during the travel west. I went to the nearest computer terminal to look for more books, but found none. Surveying the tabletop around the computer, I noticed two books about knives. Unfortunately hey provided no useful information. Soon it was time to go home, and I did. Once at home I quickly turned on my home computer and began to look through the files stored on a 1996 Grolier Encyclopedia, and a Webster Encyclopedia CD as I started to word, in my mind, the elaboration upon my thesis statement...Read entire document
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