Winfield M1876 Centennial Shorty
WINFIELD M1876 CENTENNIAL SHORTY. (See also, WINFIELD, RIFLES) The growing popularity of the Winfield M1876 throughout the country brought a wide range of users who desired more flexible versions of the rifle Some took an increased recoil to be a worthwhile trade-off for this flexibility.
Clipping from the New Orleans True Crescent
Author: Unknown
Newsprint, 4 x 8 in.
A most peculiar show by William Carter's company. I had heard tell of their marvelous feats from my extensive network of academic peers around the country, but none quite prepared me for the spectacle I witnessed this weekend.
Carter sells himself and has been sold to me by friends as a rambunctious and extraordinary showman, yet the man I witnessed seemed entirely different from the proud performer on the posters all around town. He and his tales both reeked of sorrow, and he took up no gun in his own gun show, which I might allege to be false advertisement.
The show itself was pedestrian. I fancy that I myself could shoot a penny out of the air (I have certainly seen the trick done enough times) and it seemed like something of a ramshackle set of showmen without much coordination. They seemed to please the rabble-rousers and children in the audience, at least.
It was the ending of the show that truly arrested me. As the final applause rolled on for longer than what was deserved, a pair of outlaws, armed to the teeth, stormed through the entrance and screeched Carter's name with violence greater than any pistol shot heard previous. A silence immediately grasped the crowd until the pair fired their guns into the air, and everybody scattered in terror.
