Une pose avec les "rifles".

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"A typical sheepherder."

Un rare rifle 66!!!
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ca. 1870-90’s,cabinet cart, portrait of sharpshooter Bo Durtha, with her a single shot tip-up rifle and a mirror for over-the-shoulder trick shooting.

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Winchester rifle 1866 first model extemly rare

ca. 1875-85, tintype portrait of California sharpshooter Lillian Smith, armed with a Stevens Tip-Up rifle


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ca. 1900,cabinet card, portrait of Cornelius C. Kenney outdoors with a bear pelt, fancy hat, and a rifle

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Dubbed by Plains Indians as the “shoot today, kill tomorrow” gun, the 1874 Sharps wielded by this frontiersman in Leadville, Colorado, was primarily a buffalo hunting rifle, but was occasionally used in battle, like at the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874, when Billy Dixon made his famous long-distance shot with a borrowed “Big Fifty.”

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The presence of firearms can help photo collectors date their images, as in this example of a gentleman with his Model 1860 Spencer seven-shot repeater. The Western gent’s clothing (bib front shirt, neckerchief, trousers tucked into high top boots and an upturned, broad-brimmed hat) and the photographic studio marking of Durango, Colorado, on the carte de visite suggest this photo dates to around the town’s founding, in 1881. He probably had bought the Spencer cheaply, as Civil War surplus.

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This dapper gent packs a Model No. 3 American, Smith & Wesson’s first heavy caliber revolver, made from 1870-72, and a pocket pistol as backups to his 1873 Winchester lever-action rifle. Designed as an improvement of the American model, the Schofield was outlaw Jesse James’s favorite gun. Buffalo Bill Cody relied on it during his early pre-Wild West show days, and it was also carried by El Paso lawman Dallas Stoudenmire.

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In this rare outdoor view of the 10th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers working with Apache scouts during the Indian Wars in Arizona circa 1885, the background shows an intriguing scene: one Buffalo Soldier blows his bugle, the next points his pistol skyward, while the last aims his weapon directly at the photographer.

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Two German-born brothers, Frank W. and George Freund, followed the track of the Union Pacific Railroad westward, including to Laramie, Wyoming Territory, where, in the photo at right, the man on the sand mound holds a double-key percussion muzzleloader, while the man to his right holds an 1866 Winchester. By 1870, with the Union Pacific built, the brothers had opened shop in Denver, Colorado, and eventually went on to secure patents for Sharps, Remington, Colt and other big gun manufacturers.

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Frontiersman’s Frontier Colt Samuel Colt was late to the double action game; he considered the design to be unreliable. Twenty years after Colt’s patent expired in 1857, Colt attempted a small-frame revolver; the following year, 1878, the company’s large-frame double action came out, known as the Frontier Colt. In this 1880s photo, a buckskin-clad dandy sports his nickeled 1878 Frontier Colt on his hip.– Courtesy Herb Peck Jr. Collection –
63 Frontiersman’s Frontier Colt Samuel Colt was late to the double action game; he considered the design to be unreliable. Twenty years after Colt’s patent expired in 1857, Colt attempted a small-frame revolver; the following year, 1878, the company’s large-frame double action came out, known as the Frontier Colt. In this 1880s photo, a buckskin-clad dandy sports his nickeled 1878 Frontier Colt on his hip.

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With the “most dangerous outlaw in Indian Territory,” Ned Christie, lying dead on a board, the U.S. deputy marshals pose in 1892 with their 1873 and 1886 Winchester lever-action rifles, along with one trapdoor Springfield .45-70 single-shot rifle. The Cherokee renegade, accused of murdering a U.S. marshal, held his .44-40, 1873 Winchester for the last time.

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Dressed for hunting in the cold north country and accompanied by his Labrador Retriever, this late-19th- century sportsman has opted for Winchester’s 1887 lever-action shotgun to make fast follow-up shots in his

Anse Devil Hatfield

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