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COLE YOUNGER/TEX BAKER REMINGTON PISTOL

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:10,000.00 USD Estimated At:60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD
COLE YOUNGER/TEX BAKER REMINGTON PISTOL
COLE YOUNGER OWNED PISTOL, CAPTURED DURING HIS SERVICE WITH QUANTRELL'S CONFEDERATE GUERILLAS DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. THE GUN BEARS 15 NOTCHES ON THE THE WOODEN GRIP PURPORTEDLY SIGNIFYING THE NUMBER OF MEN KILLED WITH THE WEAPON. THE PISTOL WAS LATER ACQUIRED BY TEX BAKER, A NOTABLE WILD WEST SHOW TRICK SHOT CHAMPION, WHO USED THE PISTOL AS PART OF HIS ACT. HE ALSO HAD A SHOOTING AND ROPING ACT WITH WILD JIM FRENCH, WHO CLAIMED TO BE A TEXAS RANGER. AN EARLY TIN TYPE PHOTO IS INCLUDED WITH THE LOT AND DEPICTS TEX BAKER AND PARTNER. TEX BAKER HAD A CAREER IN NUMEROUS FAMOUS WILD WEST SHOWS INCLUDING THAT OF BUFFALO BILL'S AND PAWNEE BILL. TEX BAKER'S CAREER ENDED WITH A FINAL SHOW IN 1938 AT CHICAGO'S WRIGLEY FIELD. IN 1938, TEX BAKER OF FONTANA, WISCONSIN, SOLD THE PISTOL TO WILLIAM SHAW OF WALWORTH COUNTY, WISCONSIN. IT WAS LATER SOLD TO FRANK LELAND. THE BILL OF SALE INCLUDED WITH THE PISTOL STATES HOW SCOUT YOUNGER, COUSIN OF COLE HAD IDENTIFIED THE REMINGTON AS FOLLOWS, "THIS GUN IS THE ORIGINAL WEAPON USED BY THE FAMOUS OUTLAW COLE YOUNGER, AND IT WILL BE NOTICED THERE ARE FIFTEEN NOTCHES ON THE BUTT. THIS GUN HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY SCOUT YOUNGER, COUSIN OF COLE, AND FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS BY CAPTAIN FRENCH, A FORMER TEXAS RANGER, AND TEX BAKER, IN THEIR ROPING AND SHOOTING ACT, IT WAS BOUGHT BY ME FROM TEX BAKER. SOLD TO FRANK LELAND DEC. 5TH, 1938, PROPERTY OF WILLIAM SHAW, WALWORTH COUNTY, WIS., TEX BAKER, RIFLE SHOT." REMINGTON ARMY MODEL 1861, SERIAL NUMBER #14010, DATED 1861 AND SIGNED REMINGTON. .44 CAL. GUN COCKS, TRIGGER PULLS, CYLINDER ROTATES BUT WILL NOT EJECT.