Tombstone: The Guns & Gear Review

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(More customer reviews)Shoot Magazine, the publisher, did the author a great dis-service. The color photos are not of the quality expected in this digital age and there is no excuse for that. The binding is of the cheapest type of hardbinding you can get and I find it extremely offensive to pay $39.95 for a book that is full of advertisments and to top it off not one of the advertisments is for a product that is refered to in the text. One needs only to compare it to "Packing Iron" to see how a good book should be produced.
As for the author, in a time when Hollywood has absolutely no imagination, Mr. Sherayko should be a God amoung very common men. He really knows what he is talking about but he missed the mark in this book. I was expecting a book about the gear in the movie Tombstone, not a general history of late 19th century firearms. I have been collecting arms books for 40 years and there are many, many books available that do a far better job of both photographing and detailing the history of guns of the American west. I wanted to know about the clothes actually used in the movie not "similar to" the ones used. I specifically wanted information on the spurs and spur straps Wyatt wore, they are not even mentioned. Many items are shown with no attribution to makers and the ones that tell who made them there is no reference how to contact the makers.
This book had an incredible potential but it just did'nt come through. Wait for the $9.95 remainder.

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Women and the Law of Property in Early America (Studies in Legal History) Review

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(More customer reviews)I read this book to learn what records might exist for a divorce and dower in connection with genealogy research. It is extremely thorough and detailed for the several states Salmon researched. It was very enlightening about the legal status of women, especially how their situations varied state to state. Some readers may find the book a rough go--the law can be a very dry subject. As an attorney myself, I appreciated the hair splitting differences she presented. I found even the notes and extensive bibliography useful for locating other materials to read.

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In this first comprehensive study of women's property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on women's lives.By focusing on such areas such as conveyancing, contracts, divorce, separate estates, and widows' provisions, Salmon presents a full picture of women's legal rights from 1750 to 1830.
Salmon shows that the law assumes women would remain dependent and subservient after marriage.She documents the legal rights of women prior to the Revolution and traces a gradual but steady extension of the ability of wives to own and control property during the decades following the Revolution.The forces of change in colonial and early national law were various, but Salmon believes ideological considerations were just as important as economic ones.
Women did not all fare equally under the law.In this illuminating survey of the jurisdictions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, Salmon shows regional variations in the law that affected women's autonomous control over property.She demonstrates the importance of understanding the effects of formal law on women' s lives in order to analyze the wider social context of women's experience.

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