Post by herosrest on May 1, 2015 21:54:27 GMT -6
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Calf Road's carbine www.invaluable.co.uk/auction-lot/springfield-model-1873-trapdoor-saddle-ring-carbi-2251-c-ef1f9db783
Did she use this to club Custer from his horse, after the shooing at the ford and before he was strangled to death.
Of course drowning in the river didn't help, and neither being shot in the bottom with an arrow to the groin.
Description: SN 2294. Cal. 45-50. Standard 1873 carbine with 22" rnd bbl, rectangular base front sight and long leaf carbine rear sight. Mounted in a 1-pc walnut stock with one band and 2-pc trigger guard. Buttplate is orig 1873 style without trap and stock is orig 1873 style without recess under the buttplate. It also has a long wrist and low comb. Carbine has standard 1873 breech block and lockplate markings. Lockplate tumbler has only two clicks. Left side of stock is mounted with a sling bar & ring.
This carbine was captured by a Cheyenne Indian named Calf at the Battle of the Rosebud. Calf and Chief Two Moons, along with their Cheyenne warriors, had pinned down a unit of the 3rd Cavalry. Calf, who had lost his weapons at the Powder River Fight, saw a soldier about to blow a bugle. He reportedly wanted the bugle and he and Black Horse charged straight through the soldiers with Black Horse killing one of the Shoshone scouts with his war club. Calf rode up to the bugler, grabbed the bbl of the trooper's carbine, and hit him in the arm with his hatchet, but the soldier would not relinquish his carbine. Calf hit the soldier on the other arm twice and only then did he release the carbine. Calf grabbed for the bugle but couldn't get it off the soldier's neck.
This story was related by Chief Two Moons during one of his many interviews about the Little Big Horn fight. The only bugler with the 3rd Cavalry in Company M at that fight was Elmer A. Snow who survived the fight with wounds in both arms. Snow was presented the Medal of Honor in October 1877 for bravery at the Rosebud fight. Page 163 of The .45-70 Springfield, Book, II, Frasca, states that this carbine falls within the serial range of carbines issued to the 3rd Cavalry.
PROVENANCE: Wendell Grangaard Collection. CONDITION: Fair to good. No orig finish remains with the metal being a dark brown patina and light frosty rust; buttplate is moderately pitted. Stock is sound with a large gouge or cut below the lockplate and overall retains a cleaned, worn finish. Mechanics are fine, breech block shows heavy wear in the hinge; strong bore with good shine and moderate pitting toward the muzzle.
Was this from Two Moon's battle treasure?
Was Calf, the girl who saved her brother?
What happened to the 30 Marquis weapons?
Calf Road's carbine www.invaluable.co.uk/auction-lot/springfield-model-1873-trapdoor-saddle-ring-carbi-2251-c-ef1f9db783
Did she use this to club Custer from his horse, after the shooing at the ford and before he was strangled to death.
Of course drowning in the river didn't help, and neither being shot in the bottom with an arrow to the groin.
Description: SN 2294. Cal. 45-50. Standard 1873 carbine with 22" rnd bbl, rectangular base front sight and long leaf carbine rear sight. Mounted in a 1-pc walnut stock with one band and 2-pc trigger guard. Buttplate is orig 1873 style without trap and stock is orig 1873 style without recess under the buttplate. It also has a long wrist and low comb. Carbine has standard 1873 breech block and lockplate markings. Lockplate tumbler has only two clicks. Left side of stock is mounted with a sling bar & ring.
This carbine was captured by a Cheyenne Indian named Calf at the Battle of the Rosebud. Calf and Chief Two Moons, along with their Cheyenne warriors, had pinned down a unit of the 3rd Cavalry. Calf, who had lost his weapons at the Powder River Fight, saw a soldier about to blow a bugle. He reportedly wanted the bugle and he and Black Horse charged straight through the soldiers with Black Horse killing one of the Shoshone scouts with his war club. Calf rode up to the bugler, grabbed the bbl of the trooper's carbine, and hit him in the arm with his hatchet, but the soldier would not relinquish his carbine. Calf hit the soldier on the other arm twice and only then did he release the carbine. Calf grabbed for the bugle but couldn't get it off the soldier's neck.
This story was related by Chief Two Moons during one of his many interviews about the Little Big Horn fight. The only bugler with the 3rd Cavalry in Company M at that fight was Elmer A. Snow who survived the fight with wounds in both arms. Snow was presented the Medal of Honor in October 1877 for bravery at the Rosebud fight. Page 163 of The .45-70 Springfield, Book, II, Frasca, states that this carbine falls within the serial range of carbines issued to the 3rd Cavalry.
PROVENANCE: Wendell Grangaard Collection. CONDITION: Fair to good. No orig finish remains with the metal being a dark brown patina and light frosty rust; buttplate is moderately pitted. Stock is sound with a large gouge or cut below the lockplate and overall retains a cleaned, worn finish. Mechanics are fine, breech block shows heavy wear in the hinge; strong bore with good shine and moderate pitting toward the muzzle.
Was this from Two Moon's battle treasure?
Was Calf, the girl who saved her brother?
What happened to the 30 Marquis weapons?