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AN IMPORTANT HISTORIC .45 WINCHESTER FIRST MODEL 1876 RIFLE, SERIAL NO. 3536 FOR 1877, HAVING BELONGED TO SIOUX CHIEF SITTING BULL
THE RIFLE WITH OCTAGONAL BARREL, SET WITH A FORE-SIGHT OF BONE, FIRST-MODEL TYPE FRAME, WALNUT STOCK AND FORE-END EACH WITH MULTIPLE SMALL HOLES FROM TACKS.
28 INCH BARREL
SITTING BULL (ABOUT 1834 - DECEMBER 15, 1890). HUNKPAPA SIOUX CHEIF WAS THE LEADER IN THE SIOUX WAR OF 1876-1877. SITTING BULL BECAME HEAD OF THE WAR COUNCIL IN 1875 THOUGH HE DID NOT TAKE AN ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN CUSTER'S DISASTER AT LITTLE BIG HORN. LATER HE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST. SETTLED AT THE STANDING ROCK RESERVATION, SITTING BULL REMAINED IRRECONCILABLE, AND IN 1890 HE TOOK PART IN THE MESSIAH AGITATION. ON DECEMBER 15TH, SITTING BULL WAS ARRESTED BY INDIAN POLICE, BUT IN A FIGHT THAT FOLLOWED WAS SHOT AND KILLED. HE HAD PROFICISED THAT HE WOULD BE KILLED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE, AND IT PROVED TRUE.
A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF DOCUMENTATION ACCOMPANIES THIS RIFLE. A TYPED NOTE FROM JAMES MCLAUGHLIN STATES THAT "THIS GUN WAS TAKEN FROM SITTING BULL'S HOUSE UPON THE OCCASION OF HIS ARREST ON DEC. 15/91". JAMES MCLAUGHLIN WAS THE INDIAN AGENT AT THE STANDING ROCK RESERVATION AT THE TIME OF THE MESSIAH AGITATION IN 1890. AN AFFIDAVIT, DATED 4TH DECEMBER 1968, FROM CHEIF WILLIAM RED FOX WHO KNEW SITTING BULL ABOUT 1889, STATES THAT IN HIS OPINION THIS RIFLE, NUMBER 3536, WAS "AN AUTHENTIC INDIAN RIFLE OF THE KIND IN GENERAL USE BY THE SIOUX IN THE DAKOTAS DURING THE 1880'S AND WAS OWNED AND USED BY A MASTER WARRIOR OR CHEIF OF THE SIOUX NATION." FURTHER HE STATES "I DO NOT DOUBT THAT THIS RIFLE WAS THE RIFLE TAKEN FROM SITTING BULL'S CABIN AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH."
A LETTER ADDRESSED TO ROBERT ABELS FROM AN ATTORNEY WALTER H. ROBINSON, COMMENTS ON THE ORIGINAL SHIPPING BOX THAT ACCOMPANIED THE RIFLE (NOW LOST) ON WHICH THE LABEL NOTES THAT IT CAME FROM SITTING BULL'S "NEIGHBORHOOD" IN THE DAKOTAS.
THE CONSIGNOR PURCHASED THIS RIFLE IN 1965 FROM THE WIDOW OF WALTER H. ROBINSON AND A SIGNED AFFIDAVIT FROM HER STATES THAT HER HUSBAND HAS OBTAINED THE RIFLE IN 1932 FROM THE BANK OF WEST HOLLYWOOD.
THE RIFLE WITH OCTAGONAL BARREL, SET WITH A FORE-SIGHT OF BONE, FIRST-MODEL TYPE FRAME, WALNUT STOCK AND FORE-END EACH WITH MULTIPLE SMALL HOLES FROM TACKS.
28 INCH BARREL
SITTING BULL (ABOUT 1834 - DECEMBER 15, 1890). HUNKPAPA SIOUX CHEIF WAS THE LEADER IN THE SIOUX WAR OF 1876-1877. SITTING BULL BECAME HEAD OF THE WAR COUNCIL IN 1875 THOUGH HE DID NOT TAKE AN ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN CUSTER'S DISASTER AT LITTLE BIG HORN. LATER HE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST. SETTLED AT THE STANDING ROCK RESERVATION, SITTING BULL REMAINED IRRECONCILABLE, AND IN 1890 HE TOOK PART IN THE MESSIAH AGITATION. ON DECEMBER 15TH, SITTING BULL WAS ARRESTED BY INDIAN POLICE, BUT IN A FIGHT THAT FOLLOWED WAS SHOT AND KILLED. HE HAD PROFICISED THAT HE WOULD BE KILLED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE, AND IT PROVED TRUE.
A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF DOCUMENTATION ACCOMPANIES THIS RIFLE. A TYPED NOTE FROM JAMES MCLAUGHLIN STATES THAT "THIS GUN WAS TAKEN FROM SITTING BULL'S HOUSE UPON THE OCCASION OF HIS ARREST ON DEC. 15/91". JAMES MCLAUGHLIN WAS THE INDIAN AGENT AT THE STANDING ROCK RESERVATION AT THE TIME OF THE MESSIAH AGITATION IN 1890. AN AFFIDAVIT, DATED 4TH DECEMBER 1968, FROM CHEIF WILLIAM RED FOX WHO KNEW SITTING BULL ABOUT 1889, STATES THAT IN HIS OPINION THIS RIFLE, NUMBER 3536, WAS "AN AUTHENTIC INDIAN RIFLE OF THE KIND IN GENERAL USE BY THE SIOUX IN THE DAKOTAS DURING THE 1880'S AND WAS OWNED AND USED BY A MASTER WARRIOR OR CHEIF OF THE SIOUX NATION." FURTHER HE STATES "I DO NOT DOUBT THAT THIS RIFLE WAS THE RIFLE TAKEN FROM SITTING BULL'S CABIN AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH."
A LETTER ADDRESSED TO ROBERT ABELS FROM AN ATTORNEY WALTER H. ROBINSON, COMMENTS ON THE ORIGINAL SHIPPING BOX THAT ACCOMPANIED THE RIFLE (NOW LOST) ON WHICH THE LABEL NOTES THAT IT CAME FROM SITTING BULL'S "NEIGHBORHOOD" IN THE DAKOTAS.
THE CONSIGNOR PURCHASED THIS RIFLE IN 1965 FROM THE WIDOW OF WALTER H. ROBINSON AND A SIGNED AFFIDAVIT FROM HER STATES THAT HER HUSBAND HAS OBTAINED THE RIFLE IN 1932 FROM THE BANK OF WEST HOLLYWOOD.