Our museum recently purchased a cut down Indian gun with ties to the Battle of The Little Big Horn. I am sending the gun off to be tested for ballistics, against know cartridges found at the battle. The model 1863 50-70 cal. sat in a saloon for nearly 25 years and was then in private hands for nearly another 20 some years. The story is that it was at the Battle of Little Big horn and the Cheyenne woman who had it said it was a family heirloom. After many years in the bar, a collector finally talked her out of it and it has been in only two collections since. Many guns have the “story” of being from Custer battle, but very few have proven ballistacally to have been there. It will be exciting to here back about it.

Hulett Wyoming was founded in 1881 and is located in the Northeast corner of the state.
hulett has about 50,000 visitors during the Sturgis Bike week every August.