Boondocker and Davy, you asked for more pictures. Someplace I have a couple of photos of the rifle, but I have to find them, because one of them has a dead squirrel in it that I shot with the rifle. Otherwise I'll have to take some pictures. Regarding other wall sections above my shop. Here is a photo of my American Indian section. I also have a more modern section, and Civil war and Indian Wars section, I have interest in metal detecting and prospecting and have stuff for that also, and I can show some of that stuff later if you want. The arrow and knife artifact points are ones that either I or realitives (Grandmother and Uncles) of mine have found. I owned a place one time that had been an Indian camp, and we found lots of stuff there, plus I worked on a cow outfit on the Carson River years ago, and found many points on private property along that river, so you are looking at more than one life time of finding these points. There are some beads that I found when I was a kid. During WWII the army fortified the coast where we lived. When they left, the emplacements were left. They made wonderful places for kids to play. One emplacement was dug right in an Indian mound, and everytime we played there I found some beads. My mom kept these for me, so they are on display. The Indian mound is bull dozed and under a road now. The arrows are made by me, and do NOT have artifact points on them. The arrows are made mostly with rose shafts, hide glue, hide glue and pigment paint, stone points made by me, and elk sinew. The trade musket was made by me, and I antiqued and tacked it up. It has a wiping stick rather than a ramrod. I read someplace that ramrods were lost or broken by the Indian owners, and instead of trying to dress a stick down small enough to fit the ramrod pipes they would cut a willow and carry it seperatly as a wiping stick. I don't know if that's true or not, but it sounds good, so that's what I did. The baskets were give me by an Aunt, and she got them around Eureka, Calif. so they would be Hoopa or one of those tribes. The pot is one my grandmother purchased in Arizona, and I think it is what's called a "railroad" pot. The Indians made them and sold them to tourists at the railroad stations around the turn of the century. She never lived in AZ and the pot has a retail code and a price tag in pencil for $6.00 on the bottom. Six bucks was quite a lot of money in 1900. Anyhow, it's been a family hand me down for at least a hundred years. The books on the top shelf are specific to American Indians, and the second shelf are pretty much generic old west.
