The Springfield Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Springfield located in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, was the primary center for the manufacture of United States military firearms from 1777 until its closing in 1968. It was the first federal armory and one of the first factories in the United States dedicated to the manufacture of weapons.

The site is preserved as the Springfield Armory National Historic Site, Western Massachusetts’ only unit of the national park system. It features the world’s largest collection of historic American firearms.

Jack Gotthardt. The Swallow – Lake Winnipesaukee’s “Most Picturesque Steam Yacht”. Broadfoot Publishing Company. 2003. Softcover-like new. Quarto. 52pp.

Virginia Pou Doughton. Tales of the Atlantic Hotel 1880-1933. Published by author 2004. Hardcover in DJ Unused. Quarto 80 pp

Bernd Peyer. Native Americans of the Northeast: The Tutor’d Mind : Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellum America. University of Massachusetts Press 1997. Softcover. Very good cond. Octavo 420 pp

“Each of whom struggled to negotiate a secure place between the imperatives of colonial rule and the rights of native peoples. In the view of the English colonists and their descendants, Indian converts to Christianity were expected to repudiate native traditions and affirm the superiority of European civilization, to serve as role models, and to spread the gospel far into the wilderness. Yet as Bernd C. Peyer shows, Indian missionaries did not always fulfill the expectations of those who trained them. Once the Indians recognized that conversion alone did not guarantee protection from discrimination, they devised a variety of strategies, theological as well as practical, to resist assimilation into the dominant white culture. Making effective use of their literacy and education, they called attention to the discrepancy between the Protestant ideals they had been taught and the Anglo-American practices to which native people were subjected. By uncovering this subtext of dissent and resistance, Peyer at once alters and enriches our understanding of the evolution of the American Indian literary tradition.”