The Galleries
- Robert E. Petersen Collection
- Ancient Firearms - 1350 to 1700
- Road to American Liberty - 1700 to 1780
- A Prospering New Republic - 1780 to 1860
- A Nation Asunder - 1861 to 1865
- The American West - 1850 to 1900
- Innovation, Oddities and Competition
- Theodore Roosevelt and Elegant Arms - 1880s to 1920s
- World War I and Firearms Innovation
- WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Beyond - 1940 to Present
- For the Fun of It
- Modern Firearms - 1950 to Present
- Hollywood Guns
The Alamo (1960)
The Alamo (1960)
Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie
Nock Volley Gun - .52 caliber
Slightly more than six hundred of these original flintlock Nock
volley guns were sold to the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.
Henry Nock's seven-barreled smoothbore was specifically intended to
be fired from the rigging down onto the deck against
boarders. This formidable gun was wielded by Richard Widmark
as frontiersman Jim Bowie several times in repelling Mexican
attackers in this 1960 film version of The
Alamo. Designed to fire all seven barrels
simultaneously, concussion and recoil were devastating.
Loaned by the Estate of Robert E. Petersen