Yellow Wolf's Winchester Carbine Model 66.44 Rim Fire

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Yellow Wolf's Winchester Carbine Model 66.44 Rim Fire

ca. 1860s

https://content.libraries.wsu.edu/digital/collection/lv_mcwhorte/id/46/rec/37

his rifle has a brass receiver and rust on its barrel and butt-plate. Its magazine tube is severely dented at the head. The stock is probably a replacement; it is reddish-brown in color. The butt stock has been channeled and filled at the corners both on its top and its bottom. The forestock ahead of the barrel band is cracked in two places. The saddle-ring staple is cut off nearly flush with the receiver and the saddle-ring itself is missing. The serial number engraved on the rifle's side is 126589. Yellow Wolf (Hemene MoxMox) owned this rifle prior to the war and was without it at the beginning of the campaign. It was brought to him at this time by his mother, who took it apart and carried it to him in her pack after she narrowly escaped harm in an assault on Chief Looking Glass's peaceful camp. Yellow Wolf used this rifle from the Clearwater battle through the end of the Nez Perce War of 1877. It was later given to L. V. McWhorter by him. Holding repository: Big Hole Battlefield National Monument.

Length: 102cm

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Yellow Wolf, 1855-1935

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Yellow Wolf was born in the Wallowa Valley. A young warrior at the time of the Nez Perce War, he took part in every major battle and was wounded five separate times. For his contributions in the war, Yellow Wolf was given the rank of Chief. He chose not to surrender with Chief Joseph after the Bear Paw battle, and subsequently spent two years in Canada before returning to Idaho, at which time he was arrested and sent to the Indian Territory of Oklahoma. When he returned to the Colville Reservati...