Movie Guns...

The reason given in the book was that the Indians tired of the watches after the "medicine" quit.
 
Murf said:
The reason given in the book was that the Indians tired of the watches after the "medicine" quit.
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Probably the same books that say that trade guns sold for a pile of beaver hides as high as the gun is long (400 - 500 hides) and that the guns were that long to put the price up. The real price was around 20 hides
The problem with a lot of books is that they repeat urban myths.

cheers mooncoon
 
Not sure if that is or is not the case with Hamilton. She was born a Bonneau. Being the daughter of a french speaking gov't contractor gave her inside story with gov't side but her family also had connections to the metis and Indians. For example her parents had Louis Riel's mother stay at their place in Regina while the trial was taking place. Her brothers Pascal and Treffle took the body and hid it under a church floor then accompanied it to Winnipeg. Pascal also ran a large ranch near Wilowbunch and was well aquainted with Jean Louis Legare the Wood Mountain trader who was very influential in dealing with Sitting Bull in Sask.


http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/legare_jean-louis_1841-1918.html


The following is from the local history of Willowbunch, not a direct quote but as I recall it.
Legare gave large amounts of rations to the Sioux. Apparently while returning from a trip to Washington, where he finally collected some of the money , for his expenses in feeding the Sioux, $5000 from the itemised list of $13 412, he stopped in Buffalo N.Y. to take in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. When other spectators became alarmed when the Sioux broke with the show's routine and charged in their direction Jean-Louis said not to worry as they were "his " Indians.
 
Odd Balls

sportee said:
I was watching "A Full of Dollars" last night and noticed some inconsistency toward the end of the movie. The scene at the end where Eastwood is shooting it out with the leader of the gunrunners he talks about a "when a man with a 45 meets a man with a rifle" referring to his 45 cal SAA.

The problem is...in the closedup shot of his colt the barrel looks like a 45 cal but the cylinder is more like a 32-20...definitely not a 45. I imagine they used a lighter caliber and just opened up the end of the barrel to look like a 45.

I know there are lots of other movies that do odd little things like this as well...
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I would like to know if any one else noticed the cut down Winchester that Steve McQueen used in "Wanted,Dead or Alive". It is probably a 44 0r 45 caliber that may hold 4-5 rounds yet he seems to get off 10 or 12 in a shoot out. Plus the cartridges on his shell belt look like 30-30's or 32 specials. Not exactly correct on the props. Anyone else got a beef with a movie gun??? ...ST...
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare's_Leg


The gun is reported to have been a 1892 in 44-40 but he cartridges in his belt were 45-70.
 
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