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Title:	RIFLE, PLAINS -  PLAINS RIFLE PERCUSSION .67
Maker/Manufacturer:
Date of Manufacture:	C 1855
Eminent Figure:
Catalog Number:	SPAR 704
Measurements:	OL:109.8CM 43 1/4" BL: 70.4CM 27 3/4"

Object Description:

PLAINS RIFLE PERCUSSION .67
Maker unknown - Modified percussion plains rifle. Appears to have been a rifle that was reamed out smoothbore. Back action lock with German silver buttplate which is cut for a patch box but doesn't have one. According to Army records weapon was captured from "Hostile Indians."

Markings:
Barrel: VEREIN ZUM SCHUTZE DEUTSCHER EINWANDERER IN TEXAS. (Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas.) R.
Buttplate: (HG.)

1909 Catalog #2026 - "Musket. Muzzle Loading Percussion Musket. Cal..655. Sporting arm. Octagon barrel. Inlaid in barrel, Verein Syzum Schutze, Deutscher Einnand errer in Texas. Captured from Hostile Indians."

Exhibit label: "IMMIGRANT'S GUN .67 caliber - The original use of this weapon is indicated by the inscription engraved in German in to the top of the barrel: 'Society for the protection of German immigrants in Texas.' This piece sports a U.S. military trigger assembly and guard and a butt plate for an early sliding wooden patchbox cover, indicating that it had been rebuilt or assembled from a miscellany of parts. The original barrel was rifled, but the piece has been reamed out to make it a smooth bore."

LOAN HISTORY:
Army# 1177 - Weapon loaned to the Sahara Antique Gun Show, Hotel Sahara, Las Vegas, Nev. from 20 January 1969 to 2 February 1969. At that time weapon was appraised at $250.00.

References:
Frasca, Albert J. & Robert H. Hill. 1909 CATALOG OF THE SPRINGFIELD ARMORY MUSEUM ARMS & ACCOUTERMENTS. Revised. Springfield Publishing Co. Carson City, Nv. 1995.