krag jorgensen rifle

2 years ago
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This was my Great Grandfather's rifle. He used it in the Spanish American War. The Thumbnail here is the only known photo of him taken in around 1925 or 1926. He Died around 1929. The baby in the farm scale he is holding is my father who was born in 1922 and died age 86.

This is the second attempt to upload this. Sorry about the quality.

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For those interested, My Great Grandfather is an example of an American:
He was a lead miner from Missouri. Somehow he ended up traveling through Cincinnati Ohio where he had some ailment and sought help from a prosperous doctor. He met this Doc's teen daughter and both were smitten. They eloped. He took his new bride with him as they moved to Texas. There he got a job with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway working on laying rail and worked his way up to foreman for a bridge building gang. In those days such men could get rowdy and troublesome so I know he bought a Colt revolver for "labor relations dispute management". I still have that gun. My own grandfather (his youngest of 6 kids who survived) was born in the original RV where they lived: a Caboose.

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