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Bertram C. Broome to Horace Kephart, March 31, 1924, page 2

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Item 1 - Bertram C. Broome to Horace Kephart, March 31, 1924, page 1
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Bertram C. Broome to Horace Kephart, March 31, 1924, page 1

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Bertram C. Broome to Horace Kephart, March 31, 1924, page 2

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Item 3 - Bertram C. Broome to Horace Kephart, March 31, 1924, page 3
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Bertram C. Broome to Horace Kephart, March 31, 1924, page 3

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  • From Babicora I rode,with a Mexican friend,across the mountains to the silver mines at Lampazos where I got the job of"Conductor" of the silver bullion from the mines to Hermosillo; five days by mule trails and the shipments of bar silver often being to the value of $20,000,-- the "oonduota" being myself and ten Mexicans and t.wenty mules. I can speak Spanish as good as my own language so the life and people were familiar to me.. We had many exciting and dangerous experiences;hold-ups, pot shots at us etc,-Some day I'd like to write up that which would interest people of to-lay whose most exciting episode of their lives is to brsax a golf- club. I have always loved old guns; guns that had some character and personality as it *#ere. I now have six and all tell taeir story long csfore they are nandlea. One is an old flint-lock buffalo rifle once owned by Kit Carson wnsn he lived In Taos,New Mexico. It is cracked etc* but carefully repaired with bands of shrunken raw hide and sinus and snoots mighty well yet. I described it fully in "Stock and Steel". Another old rifle of mine is my old pal "Sally Boone" with which I've hunted all sorts of game in tne mountains back cf Santa Fe,S,M. "Sally" is a Lancaster made "Kentucky" rifle made by Boyer about 1340,silver inlaid and beautifully made. Then comes "Hornet" my flint-lock "Kentucky" squirrel rifle., 32 Cal*,ani shooting as fell as it did when made in 1825. "Ginger" is a flint-lock "Kentucky" rifle made about 1800 o thereabouts. It has a very long,sw33plng drop of nearly 9" and is about 46 Oa-l. "Ginger" Is In absolutely original condition and shoots fairly well but is muzzis worn and needs reboring. Then last but not least is a "Kentucky"..,fancy,old time percussion match rifle such as my father used when he was a young man in Lancaster,Pa. It too needs, reboring as the rifling is badly worn from some one using it for shot. Inen I lived in Santa Fe,S»¥* I twice- had the pleasure of using the "Kit Carson" rifle now in the Masonic Lodge there. It is said to have been used by Carson and by hia/presenxad to the Lodge;both, statements 1 Delisvs are in error. On taking the rifle apart to study Hawken's workmanship I found that the look had apparently seen NO USE and 2.
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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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