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54. Hatch, Remington Arms, pp. 135–36.
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55. J. Dunn, “Egypt’s Nineteenth-Century Armaments Industry,” Journal of Military History 56, no. 2 (1997), pp. 231–54; Hatch, Remington Arms, pp. 142–45.The Mahdi’s remark is quoted in F. Nicoll, The Sword of the Prophet: The Mahdi of Sudan and the Death of General Gordon (Sutton, U.K.: Stroud, 2004), pp. 88–89.
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56. Hatch, Remington Arms, pp. 142–45. Dunn, “Egypt’s Nineteenth-Century Armaments Industry,” p. 244, disagrees with Hatch on the subject of the Paris Exposition, saying that the Remington was awarded the silver medal.
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57. For these figures, see Sharpe, Rifle in America, pp. 305–6. On the French figure, see R. I. Wolf, Arms and Innovation: The United States Army and the Repeating Rifle, 1865–1900 (Unpub. Ph.D diss.; Boston University, 1981), p. 63.
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58. Sharpe, Rifle in America, p. 293. Remington sales have, I think, been greatly exaggerated; some authorities put the number as high as one million.
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59. Dunn, “Egypt’s Nineteenth-Century Armaments Industry,” p. 253.
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60. When Sergeant John Ryan of Company M was overseeing the burial detail for the Seventh Cavalry three days later, he found that “under the General’s body were four or five brass cartridge shells which I picked up, they were what he used in his Remington rifle.” Quoted in Parsons and Du Mont, Firearms in the Custer Battle, p. 19. Ryan was himself a crack shot: he carried a custom-made .45-caliber Sharps telescopic rifle. Noted in G. Michno, “Battle of Little Bighorn: Were the Weapons the Deciding Factor?” WildWest, online at www.historynet.com/magazines/wild_west/3035316.htm?page=1&c=y. Ironic -ally, though Custer liked to “brag on” his skills as a hunter (in the words of a colleague accompanying his 1874 Black Hills hunting expedition), he “did no shooting that was notable.” See Garavaglia and Worman, Firearms of American West, p. 2:161.
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61. Dodge, Plains of Great West, pp. 133, 137.
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62. J. Cloud, “Why the Buffalo Roam,” Time, March 15, 2007.
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63. In 1882 James McNaney and his brother decided to become buff runners; their shopping list is printed in Garavaglia and Worman, Firearms of American West, pp. 2:200–201; and see also Hatch, Remington Arms, p. 156.
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64. A. Barra, Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998), p. 31. Dodge’s Plains of the Great West has an informative section on buffalo running, pp. 134–39.
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65. Garcia, Tough Trip Through Paradise, p. 184.
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66. F. Collinson, Life in the Saddle, ed. M. W. Clarke (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963), p. 55.
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67. Hatch, Remington Arms, pp. 156–57; on Malcolm sights, see Sharpe, Rifle in America, pp. 168–69.
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68. Collinson, Life in the Saddle, p. 55.
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69. Smits, “Frontier Army,” p. 320.
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70. Sharpe, Rifle in America, p. 217.
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71. Hatch, Remington Arms, pp. 180–83. On Remington’s losses, see Sharpe, Rifle in America, p. 294.
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72. For prices, see Edwards, Civil War Guns, p. 400, and also pp. 403–4.
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73. Collinson, Life in the Saddle, p. 12.
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74. G. Riley, The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), p. 68; S. Kaspar, Annie Oakley (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), pp. 184–85.
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75. See C. Tefertiller, Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997), pp. 116–17.
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76. Austerman, “Guns of Many Voices,” p. 4.
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77. See, for example, Sergeant W.J.L. Sullivan, Twelve Years in the Saddle for Law and Order on the Frontiers of Texas, quoted in G. Shirley, West of Hell’s Fringe: Crime, Criminals, and the Federal Peace Office in Oklahoma Territory, 1889–1907