Army surplus

[TerryS]

Where would a Cheyenne Indian get a carbine in 1876 ?

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[Smokey60]

Trade, theft, battle pick up, etc. Any way was a good way

[Pattern14]

Probably from that white dude in the picture with the white hat and tall boots.

[browningautorifle]

That's kinda what I was thinking...It looks like a pose of the old west pic.

[nedclampet]

Probably brought it home with him after The Big Horn party.

[RETREAD]

Fantastic photo... The carbines look to be early ones with the split sling swivel and the long comb stocks..... Seems odd a gun runner would want proof of his crime documented. May be a posed shot from a later era...

[JGaynor]

Bannerman's? .. kimosabe

[jmoore]

From the photographer's stash o' props?

[Kirk]

From the government. The Indians may have been hired by the Army as Scouts or the BIA may have given them the carbines under some other arrangement.

[jmoore]

Them's ain't US Army Scouts, I reckon.

A rifle like this one?








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