Medal of honor won by one of the Buffalo Soldiers (black troops in segregated units led by white officers) who served at Fort Stanton, nearby.
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1873 "Trapdoor" Springfield carbines. They have short barrels and only 1/2 length stocks. Caliber .45-55-405, the same brass as the classic .45-70-405 and .45-70-500, but with only 55 grains of black powder to reduce the violent recoil in the carbine model.
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Spencer carbine. A 7-shot lever action repeater, feeds from a magazine in the buttstock.
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Buffalo soldier Sergeant in full-dress uniform. Similar to the blues we still wear today.
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Colt 1860 Army revolver, .44 percussion, with cavalry holster. Cavalrymen shot their revolvers with the left hand, saber in the right.
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Display of contemporary artifacts
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Camp life
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Bugle, pennant, kepi and Springfield Carbine
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Coffee mill. I saw the same kind in a Jimmy Stewart western about Canada.
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Winchester 1873 and 1886 rifles and a Colt Revolver
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Colt 1877 "Lightning", .38 Long Colt caliber.
Box of .41 Colt cartridges.
Billy the Kid had a "Thunderer" in .41 caliber.
This is the first double-action trigger Colt, meaning one pull of the trigger cocks and fires the hammer. The double-ction mechanism was found to be weak and broke often.
The lineage from the 1873 Cold Single Action Army, or Peacemaker, is obvious in the ejector system.
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.45 Colt centerfire cartidges.
35 grains of black powder
250 grain lead bullets
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Trapdoor Carbine and Frontier equipment
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Barrel markings on the Springfield
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1873 Springfield carbine action.
The breechblock, invented by Allin, was designed to convert percussion muzzleloading rifles to breech-loading with brass cartridges. It was an economical system, always important to Army thinkers (read beancounters)
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