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Western Legends

by | Sep 22, 2022 | Art, Guns and Culture, Collecting the West

The Rock Island Auction hammers out Wild West shootists' sidearms.   The Rock Island “Premier Firearms” auction held August 26-28 included notable weapons from legendary characters of the Old West…and beyond. Among those characters were two staunch friends of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. One was Wild Bill Hickok, who a teenaged Cody met on a wagon train along the Oregon Trail. Their lives intertwined from that moment until Hickok’s death in 1876.The other was Frank North, a


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