Weapons of Mississippi

Mississippians have long found the need for an arsenal of interesting, lethal, and imaginative weapons. Native Americans, frontier outlaws, antebellum duelists, authorities and protestors in the civil rights struggle, and present-day hunters have used weapons to survive, to advance causes, or to levy societal control. In Weapons of Mississippi , Kevin Dougherty examines the roles weapons have played in twelve phases of state history. Dougherty not only offers technical background for these devic