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    THE LITTLE CARBINE THAT COULD—FOR A WHILE

    Sep 25, 2018 3 minutes
    BY DOUGLAS C. McCHRISTIAN

    Fortified atop a precipitous rimrock in southeastern Arizona Territory’s Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise’s Apaches rained down bullets and arrows on Spencer-wielding cavalry troopers rushing their position. A couple of weeks earlier the warriors had ambushed a stagecoach on the overland mail route near Dragoon Springs, leaving the naked, mutilated bodies of the driver, four 21st U.S. Infantry guards and prominent mine owner J.F. Stone on the ground beside the bullet-riddled, blood-spattered coach.

    Now and then antique guns with historical provenance surface on the collectors’ market. Being able to associate a firearm with historical figures

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