Arsenals of History 2022

Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Cody, Wyoming

Presentations

Day 1 (6 October)

Extracting the Detail & Showcasing the Hidden
Dr Rachel Bolton-King (Associate Professor of Forensic Science, Nottingham Trent University)

The Cartier-Roberval Site: Renaissance Strategy in North America
Khan Rooney (Intendant, Château Ramezay)

Verifying the Story: Untangling a Confusing Family History
Dave Kennedy (Curator of Collections, U.S. Marshals Museum)

“Vinvit Qui Patitur”: The Life of an American Armsmaker–Colonel Samuel Colt
Bert Barnett (Ranger, National Parks Service [retired])

Winchester Contributions to Experimental Military SALW During the Cold War
N.R. Jenzen-Jones (Director, Armament Research Services)

Day 2 (7 October)

Arming Virginia: Military Firearms in the Colonial Capital
Erik Goldstein (Senior Curator of Mechanical Arts & Numismatics, Colonial Williamsburg)

Exhibiting the Marine Raiders at the National Museum of the Marine Corps
Kater Miller (Curator, National Museum of the Marine Corps)
& Jennifer Jackson (Exhibit Specialist, National Museum of the Marine Corps)

The Armament of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge
Erik Farrell (independent archaeological conservator)

Methods of Research: Making a Book and Video Game about the Collier Revolver
Ben Nicholson (Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

Day 3 (8 October)

Family Tradition or Provenance? Employing Genealogy Tools to Research Early American Firearms
Zac Distel (Curator & Director of Collections, Sons of the American Revolution)

Ready, Aim, Tour: Using Dialogic Interpretation for Firearms Programming
Kirsten Michael (Exclusive Tours Coordinator, Buffalo Bill Center of the West)

Dutch Arms Development in the Age of Industrialization (1815–1895).
Mathieu Willemsen (Curator, Nationaal Militair Museum)

I Liked My Armalite: The British Experience of the AR-15 Rifle
Jonathan Ferguson (Keeper of Firearms & Artillery, Royal Armouries)
& Matthew Moss (independent researcher)

Symposium Report

Danny Michael, ‘Report: The 2022 Kurt Swanson Bucholz Arsenals of History Symposium’, Armax: The Journal of Contemporary Arms, Vol. VIII No. 2, pp. 99–102, <https://doi.org/10.52357/armax86854>.
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Other Publications

A list of other publications arising from or otherwise connected to research presented at this symposium is provided below. This list is based on submissions from participants and may be incomplete.

N.R. Jenzen-Jones, ‘The LWL–Olin Shotshell Adaptor for the M79 Grenade Launcher’, Armax: The Journal of Contemporary Arms, Vol. IX No. 2 (2023), pp. 59–76, <https://doi.org/10.52357/armax28608>.
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Nathan Henry & Erik Farrell, ‘Preliminary Analysis of Armaments from Shipwreck 31CR314: Queen Anne's Revenge’, The Journal of the Ordnance Society, No. 28 (2021), pp. 5–19.
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Ben E. Nicholson, Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier & Artemas Wheeler (Nashville: Headstamp Publishing, 2023).
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