1858 Remington History and cool stories.

[nick_1]

Buffalow Bill was the most famous advocate of the 1858 . Claimed it never failed him.
I stole this shot off the internet from his Wiki page . Looks like two 1858's on the antlers, another 1858 without a loading lever. Possibly a cartridge conversion? 51 navy? No clue what the lower rifle is? the upper one looks like some kind of front stuffer big bore Hawken? the photo was dated 1871. looks like more pistols for faster reloads to me

 

[SDSmlf]

Buffalow Bill was the most famous advocate of the 1858 . Claimed it never failed him.
I stole this shot off the internet from his Wiki page . Looks like two 1858's on the antlers, another 1858 without a loading lever. Possibly a cartridge conversion? 51 navy? No clue what the lower rifle is? the upper one looks like some kind of front stuffer big bore Hawken? the photo was dated 1871. looks like more pistols for faster reloads to me

Probably easier to understand your excitement if you included the photograph you talking about.

 

[deerstalkert]

 

[nick_1]

Oops. Yes that is the one.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Notice that like the photo of Billy The Kid, the image is reversed.

 

[nick_1]

??

 

[Jim in Wisconsin]

In the early photograph systems, they didn't have the negatives which then got printed into pictures like we had with film cameras. The picture they ended up with was the negative - in other words things looked backwards. Like a civil war picture of a soldier with a belt buckle that should say "U S"
would have a S U with the S backwards. Usually the photo studio would blur that out so it didn't show up.
If you could hold one of those pictures up to a bright light and look at the back side it would be right.

 

[deerstalkert]

I thought about reversing that pic but took a nap instead. most photo apps will reverse the image if you can figure it out. now where is that 9 year old that does it for me. sucks being old