Remington Arms in American history

by Alden R. Hatch

American industry can boast few sagas of success as interesting to the sportsman and general reader as the story of the great Remington Arms Company. Its development has been inextricably intertwined with the development of the country itself - the winning of the West, the fiery trails of war. That fact gives this history a special important, but the details of the Remington story are fascinating in themselves. The first handmade gun was laboriously turned out by Eliphalet Remington in 1816, and today, the firm is a vast, diversified, industrial complex. Here is the story of the development of many Remington "firsts."

359 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Alden R. Hatch was an American writer.
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