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I didn't buy the rifle from them. If you check out my earlier posting about this rifle, the couple who gave it to me got it along with some other antiques 45 years ago all for $60.00. THe husband of the couple gave it to me to look at and eventually just let me keep it. I don't know what type of pro...

Gunny, I haven't any money to hire anyone to investigate anything. However, I've known the two pople from whom I received the rifle for 24 years. The letter from the woman in Mexico (Alondra), verifies to me that what they said about the rifle was true. Frank and Gail never suspected and possibly di...

Hi Gunny. The letter to me from the family is in Spanish because I asked that they do so because that would eliminate any possible mistakes in trying to convey any informaiton to me. The letter, as translated to me states that the soldiers attacked and took the corner where the cannon stood and that...

Hey Gunny! I'm sorry that I didn't get aroundto responding to your last post here. I'm not notified when there's an snswer to mypostings and so I didn't see it. Anyway, isn't the rifle neat!? SInce mylast posting, additional information has come to light from the family from whom the rifle was obtai...

One wonders what kind of shape they'd be in after all this time. Terrible no doubt. I never put much stock in the tales of hidden Confederate gold, but weapons caches seem probable to me. And Gunny is right, some things are more valuable than gold, like lost Alamo weapons. Here's the Pennsylvania L...

The "quest" that Hedges took to Belize and specifically Lubaantun wasn't in any way an archaeological project. Hedges did indeed purchase the skull from an auction house earlier and as he had planned, arranged for his daughter to discover it on her birthday. It's known in some circles that...

BTW, again...lol... :P My dad collects firearms. He's got a couple of these: http://www.thunder-ridge-muzzleloading.com/images/Plains%20pistol.jpg And a couple of these: http://www.ambroseantiques.com/images/guns/flongarms/clubbutt3.JPG And this beauty of a .22 hex barrel: That's quite an interesti...

Good question but it's important to remember the relative small number of troops engaged in the War. What is your opinion of the Colonel De La Pena diary controversy, Dog? Jose Enrique de la Pena difinitely wrote about what he saw and felt. Not much about what he heard. I think that the accounts of...

Santa Ana made a big show of cleaning up the battle site by burning the bodies of the defenders. He would not have left their weapons lying around, however. It is unlikely that he would have had any military use for the weapons of the defenders as his army used the British Brown Bess and thus had s...

Marduk, thankyou Very Much for that information! Gramps would've been a little embarased by all of it & a bit proud too. He started taking me out with him into the field when I was six. I even remember going through the back dirt piles at Line Creek while he was excavating a feature. That's when...

Does anyone here remember the MO archaeologist and historian named Mett Shippee? If you have and if you have any news aricles, photogrphs or stories about him, I'd like to hear from you. Thanks, Fred Gaarde, Metts grandson.
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Now I've got it!!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!

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Bruce Willis used one of these Lemats in "The Twelve Monkey's" as the gun he used in the airport to shoot the bad guy. I wonder why the Prop man used a 19th century Lemat as the choice of handguns? How do I get my pictures to appear large? The picures attached to my posts have to be clicke...