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A RARE HISTORIC TEXAS RANGER USED NEW YORK ENGRAVED .45 COLT SINGLE ACTION ARMY REVOLVER, SERIAL NO. 108692 FOR 1884
THE SIGHTED BARREL MARKED WITH TWO-LINE COLT ADDRESS, NICKEL PLATED OVERALL, ENGRAVED THROUGHOUT WITH SCROLLS ON GRANULAR GROUNDS WITH BARREL HAVING A MEANDERING SCROLL PATTERN ON EACH SIDE, THE CYLINDER WITH WEAVING LINE AND DOTS EACH FLUTE WITH SCROLLS, ORIGINAL MELLOWED IVORY CARVED STEER HEAD GRIPS, BLUED SCREWS.
4¾ INCH BARREL
SHOWING SOME LIGHT CLEANING.
COLT CONFIRMS REVOLVER SHIPPED "SOFT" TO J.P. MOORES OF NEW YORK CITY.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF PAT DOOLING DO NOT ACCOMPANY THIS REVOLVER AND WILL BE RETURNED TO THE FAMILY.
COL. PAT DOOLING, BORN IRELAND 1847, DIED QUANNAH, TEXAS MARCH 4, 1921. FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL MCCLELLAN, AND SERVED LATER AS A SCOUT FOR GENERALS SHELBY, DODGE, AND CROOK. SURVEYED THE ROUTES FOR THE TEXAS-PACIFIC AND THE FT. WORTH & DENVER RAILROADS. A PARTICIPANT IN THE THE FIGHTINGS OF THE INDIAN WARS, WAS ALSO ACQUAINTED WITH QUANNAH PARKER.
DOOLING LED THE FIRST REPUBLICAN DELEGATION FROM TEXAS THAT NOMINATED MCKINLEY, AND WAS A CLOSE FRIEND OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT, THE TWO OFTEN HUNTING TOGETHER.
AS CALLED UPON HE SERVED AS A TEXAS RANGER. A COPY OF THE FRONT PAGE FROM THE QUANNAH OBSERVER DATED MARCH 10, 1921 RELATING TO THE DEATH OF PAT DOOLING NOTES THAT; "AS A FRONTIERSMAN PAT DOOLING BECAME FAMOUS AND HE FIGURED TO NO SMALL DEGREE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTHWEST." A COPY OF A PAGE FROM A FT. WORTH NEWSPAPER NOTES THAT HE WAS BORN IN OHIO DIFFERING FROM OTHER ACCOUNTS BUT NOTES HIS ASSOCIATION WITH ROOSEVELT. FROM THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, APRIL 10, 1926, IN AN ARTICLE ENTITLED FILL YOUR HAND - AS TOLD BY FRED E. SUTTON TO A.B. MACDONALD, PAGE 168 RELATES THIS FAMOUS EVENT OFTEN ATTRIBUTED TO OTHERS...
"A GANG OF COWBOYS WENT ON A RIOT IN A TEXAS TOWN, SHOT OUT THE LIGHTS AND WINDOWS, KILLED A FEW AND TERRORIZED THE REST, AND THE CITIZENS SENT A CALL TO AUSTIN FOR THE RANGERS TO COME A QUELL THE OUTBREACK. PAT DOOLING WAS SENT ALONE. WHEN HE GOT OFF THE TRAIN THE CITIZENS WERE THERE TO MEET THE RANGERS AND ASKED WHERE THEY WERE.
"I'M THE RANGER," SAID DOOLING.
"DID THEY SEND ONLY ONE RANGER?"
"YOU'VE GOT ONLY ONE RIOT, HAVEN'T YOU?" ASKED DOOLING, AND HE QUIETED IT, ALONE, IN SHORT ORDER.
THE SIGHTED BARREL MARKED WITH TWO-LINE COLT ADDRESS, NICKEL PLATED OVERALL, ENGRAVED THROUGHOUT WITH SCROLLS ON GRANULAR GROUNDS WITH BARREL HAVING A MEANDERING SCROLL PATTERN ON EACH SIDE, THE CYLINDER WITH WEAVING LINE AND DOTS EACH FLUTE WITH SCROLLS, ORIGINAL MELLOWED IVORY CARVED STEER HEAD GRIPS, BLUED SCREWS.
4¾ INCH BARREL
SHOWING SOME LIGHT CLEANING.
COLT CONFIRMS REVOLVER SHIPPED "SOFT" TO J.P. MOORES OF NEW YORK CITY.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF PAT DOOLING DO NOT ACCOMPANY THIS REVOLVER AND WILL BE RETURNED TO THE FAMILY.
COL. PAT DOOLING, BORN IRELAND 1847, DIED QUANNAH, TEXAS MARCH 4, 1921. FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL MCCLELLAN, AND SERVED LATER AS A SCOUT FOR GENERALS SHELBY, DODGE, AND CROOK. SURVEYED THE ROUTES FOR THE TEXAS-PACIFIC AND THE FT. WORTH & DENVER RAILROADS. A PARTICIPANT IN THE THE FIGHTINGS OF THE INDIAN WARS, WAS ALSO ACQUAINTED WITH QUANNAH PARKER.
DOOLING LED THE FIRST REPUBLICAN DELEGATION FROM TEXAS THAT NOMINATED MCKINLEY, AND WAS A CLOSE FRIEND OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT, THE TWO OFTEN HUNTING TOGETHER.
AS CALLED UPON HE SERVED AS A TEXAS RANGER. A COPY OF THE FRONT PAGE FROM THE QUANNAH OBSERVER DATED MARCH 10, 1921 RELATING TO THE DEATH OF PAT DOOLING NOTES THAT; "AS A FRONTIERSMAN PAT DOOLING BECAME FAMOUS AND HE FIGURED TO NO SMALL DEGREE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTHWEST." A COPY OF A PAGE FROM A FT. WORTH NEWSPAPER NOTES THAT HE WAS BORN IN OHIO DIFFERING FROM OTHER ACCOUNTS BUT NOTES HIS ASSOCIATION WITH ROOSEVELT. FROM THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, APRIL 10, 1926, IN AN ARTICLE ENTITLED FILL YOUR HAND - AS TOLD BY FRED E. SUTTON TO A.B. MACDONALD, PAGE 168 RELATES THIS FAMOUS EVENT OFTEN ATTRIBUTED TO OTHERS...
"A GANG OF COWBOYS WENT ON A RIOT IN A TEXAS TOWN, SHOT OUT THE LIGHTS AND WINDOWS, KILLED A FEW AND TERRORIZED THE REST, AND THE CITIZENS SENT A CALL TO AUSTIN FOR THE RANGERS TO COME A QUELL THE OUTBREACK. PAT DOOLING WAS SENT ALONE. WHEN HE GOT OFF THE TRAIN THE CITIZENS WERE THERE TO MEET THE RANGERS AND ASKED WHERE THEY WERE.
"I'M THE RANGER," SAID DOOLING.
"DID THEY SEND ONLY ONE RANGER?"
"YOU'VE GOT ONLY ONE RIOT, HAVEN'T YOU?" ASKED DOOLING, AND HE QUIETED IT, ALONE, IN SHORT ORDER.
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BY DESCENT THROUGH THE FAMILY