Phil Spangenberger

Six-Gun Safety

Although loading blackpowder six-guns, which represent the era of 1840s-70s, require...

In the firearms world, the name “Shiloh” has come to mean the maker of the finest quality modern reproductions of the famed single-shot Sharps...

“They say my bowie knife is keen to sliver into halves The carcass of my enemy, as butchers slay their calves.” These two bloodthirsty lines...

In 1875, when U.S. Army wife Martha Summerhayes’s Army ambulance was being escorted through Arizona Territory, from Camp Apache to Camp Ehrenberg...

To the hunter in the field, probably the only thing better than a powerful and accurate rifle is an improved version. In the latter part of 1935,...

During the June 1874 battle of Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle, where an estimated 700 Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne warriors attacked nearly 30...

San Francisco, 1853: As traveler John Steele strolled along a bustling thoroughfare, he suddenly found himself being crowded against a doorway and...

In most everyone’s life comes a moment or event that provides the catalyst to their future. In my case, that event was the 1954 TV airing of...

Without a doubt, firearms were among the most important tools used in the settling of the West. To quote Jeffrey Richardson, the Autry National...

In February 15, 1900, as the train slowly steamed to a stop at the Fairbank, Arizona, station, members of the notorious Stiles-Alvord outlaw gang...

Westward expansion took place during the Industrial Revolution, which was also a time of great evolution in the world of firearms. The development...

How would you like to attend a gun show and see hundreds of fine Old West guns and accessories—without having to traipse up and down endless,...