Need book reference help

[flintlock]

I need a good reference book to identify Fur Trade gun parts like side plates and butt plates. Any good recommendations? Thanks.

 

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[Lucas]

Hanson, C. The Northwest Gun. Museum Assoc. of American Frontier, 1992.

James Gooding - Trade Guns of the Hudson's Bay Company 1670-1970

Back issues of the Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly. The one on the chronology of Board of Ordinance guns especially.

http://www.furtrade.org/6quart.html