{"product_id":"the-hawken-forge-rifles-that-tamed-the-west","title":"The Hawken Forge: Rifles that Tamed the West","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Hawken Brothers and the Rifle That Forged the West.\u003cbr\u003e\nTwo brothers. One anvil. A nation on the move. From a muddy lot on the St. Louis riverfront, Jacob and Samuel Hawken forged more than rifles—they forged the myth of the American frontier. Their Plains Rifle—short, heavy, mercilessly accurate—rode with Ashley’s brigade, dropped grizzlies that took three balls to die, and guarded gold claims from the Feather River to the Klondike. When cholera took Jacob in 1849, Samuel kept the hammer singing alone for thirty-five more years, turning a gunsmith shop into a legend. This is the story of iron that remembers: every hammer blow, every mountain pass, every shot that saved a life or ended one. From the War of 1812 to the California Gold Rush, from the last rendezvous to the final pour of molten steel, the Hawken rifle carried farther than any man who shouldered it. A sweeping saga of brotherhood, craft, and the West that was built one true shot at a time. “The pause between hammer falls is where the frontier was born.”\u003cbr\u003e\n— Samuel Hawken, 1884\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54008744739184,"sku":"979-8273541122","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_4702_b5f9e9c04e.jpg?v=1783580554","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/the-hawken-forge-rifles-that-tamed-the-west","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}