It's been a long time since Frank Sellers book on Sharps Rifles and their history has been written.
Finally! A new one has come out. Coauthored by four of the most well known Sharps historians of our time; Roy Macrot, Ron Paxton, De Witt Bailey, and Richard Labowskie, this is Vomume II of a four volume set. Coffee table sized, and weighing in at six and one-half pounds, it is literally as well as figuratively, the heavyweight in its field.
Dr Lebowskie may be the most well known of the four, since the late 1980's he has owned most of the factory records and correspondence in existence.
Volume II is out of order, but it was deemed the most important of the four planned volumes to shooters and all of those interested in the history of the Model 1874, the Sharps that decimated the Buffalo herds, and made the West safe for Winchester. It is heavy on photos, both early B&W, and modern color pictures of surviving rifles.
It was five years in the research and compilation by the four. Distribution began in late in 2017 by Northwood Heritage Press in Tucson. This is already THE reference for those interested in the cartridge Sharps Models of 1869 and 1874. It also covers the percussion conversion models, like the one made famous by Matthew Quigley in the movie "Quigley Down Under" released in (iirc) 1884.
The book runs 367 pages, retail is ninety-dollars, and I have no idea of the run number. The book can be ordered from Heritage, phone 1-520-906-0716.
It is not an easy one shot volume, to be read in an afternoon. I have been at this one for about four hours this weekend, and I might be 1/3rd thru. It is, however, T-H-E definitive reference on the cartridge rifles, and a fascinating read.
Rich
Finally! A new one has come out. Coauthored by four of the most well known Sharps historians of our time; Roy Macrot, Ron Paxton, De Witt Bailey, and Richard Labowskie, this is Vomume II of a four volume set. Coffee table sized, and weighing in at six and one-half pounds, it is literally as well as figuratively, the heavyweight in its field.
Dr Lebowskie may be the most well known of the four, since the late 1980's he has owned most of the factory records and correspondence in existence.
Volume II is out of order, but it was deemed the most important of the four planned volumes to shooters and all of those interested in the history of the Model 1874, the Sharps that decimated the Buffalo herds, and made the West safe for Winchester. It is heavy on photos, both early B&W, and modern color pictures of surviving rifles.
It was five years in the research and compilation by the four. Distribution began in late in 2017 by Northwood Heritage Press in Tucson. This is already THE reference for those interested in the cartridge Sharps Models of 1869 and 1874. It also covers the percussion conversion models, like the one made famous by Matthew Quigley in the movie "Quigley Down Under" released in (iirc) 1884.
The book runs 367 pages, retail is ninety-dollars, and I have no idea of the run number. The book can be ordered from Heritage, phone 1-520-906-0716.
It is not an easy one shot volume, to be read in an afternoon. I have been at this one for about four hours this weekend, and I might be 1/3rd thru. It is, however, T-H-E definitive reference on the cartridge rifles, and a fascinating read.
Rich
