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A Man of Wealth and Taste
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This came from a family member.....The Troopers name was Otto Voit....he was one of the 4 Sharpshooters who kept up fire on the indians while a group of 24 Troopers went down a ravine for water...Voit spent 30 years in the 7th Cav...starting in 1866 and finishing in 1896...he was at the Wa****a, Yellowstone expedition, BlackHills expedition, Little Big Horn, Canyon Creek (Nez Pearce), White Clay Creek,( Wounded Knee)and finally chasing renegade Apaches in Arizona in the 1890's...he died in 1906...
The rifle is a 50/70 Second Allin Conversion Trapdoor...
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