Two Guns Owned By Mexican Folk Hero Pancho Villa Up For Auction (Calamity Jane's Gun: For Auction)

Dallas News ^ | November 7, 2007 | Associated Press

[DogByte6RER]

Two guns owned by Mexican folk hero Pancho Villa up for auction

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Associated Press

SAN ANTONIO – Whether or not Pancho Villa is remembered as an infamous outlaw or a revolutionary hero, everyone agrees that the folk hero of the 1910 Mexican Revolution always carried guns.

Now two of those firearms, and one that belonged to frontierswoman "Calamity Jane," will be up for bidding in an auction beginning Saturday in Fredericksburg. The auction is open for public preview on Friday.

"He always carried a gun to the day of his death and he didn't care what it was," Tom Burks, manager of the auction and former curator for the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco, said of Villa. "He knew his life didn't depend on a fancy gun."

Also Online Frontier Times Western Auction But one of them is a real beaut'.

Villa's Remington single action revolver, engraved with a scroll pattern, will clearly be the star of the auction. The big draw is that it has Villa's real name, "Doreteo Arango," engraved on one side of the barrel. On the other side is "Chih-1914," around the time Villa became governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

Burks said the gun model dates to 1875.

Another gun in the auction, which features about 1,000 Old West items, once belonged to "Calamity Jane," Burks said. The pocket pistol, which comes in its leather case, bears the moniker "Martha Jane Cannary," the frontierswoman's real name.

Also available is a mauser carbine rifle that Villa reportedly dropped in the Rio Grande during a skirmish with opposition forces. Documents accompanying the rifle say a woman fished it out of the water and sold it to a young man who later gave it to his sister.

[Squantos]

I will visit the section in question for ya in the AM.......some old guns over there in the bunker !

Stand by for tomorrow !....Ed Brady ?

Stay safe !

[xsrdx]

I'm just glad to go out and shoot my best.

The most any of us can hope for!

[xsrdx]

What other pistoleros did I miss? Rex Applegate?

Ross Seyfried, Chuck Taylor. Might be a few years after guys like Chapman though. That's Old School!

Trust you're already aware of ICORE

[Tijeras_Slim]

FITZ! I can’t believe I forgot Fitz, especially when I have a signed copy of “Shooting”.

Geez.....

[Tijeras_Slim]

Bob Milek too.

Damn but we’re old. :)

[AnAmericanMother]

Amen!

Right now we're mulling over plans for a Cowboy Cart -- to carry all our stuff.

Since my persona is that of a Crow Indian scout, I'm considering rigging up a travois for my faithful Labrador Retriever to pull . . .

"You're gonna do WHAT?"

[investigateworld]

Meanwhile, a real find would be the head of Pancho Villa sa it was stolen from his corpse several years later.

Years ago, I bought what I thought was the skull of Pancho from a street vendor in Tijuana.

Alas, he was out the next day selling another skull, also saying it was Poncho's.

When I confronted him, he said he was selling Poncho's skull from when Poncho was a little boy. (I bought it too, just to be on the safe side)

[AnAmericanMother]

Here's that poor persecuted Lakota dog . . .

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Maybe I should have said my comment about it being Corzine was a joke.***

I jujst niow realized you were talking about NooJoisey’s Corzine!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I was into shooting cowboy guns way back in 1968. I had the real Colt .45, Real 1873 Winchester rifle in .38/40, and one of the first Uberti “Yellowboy” rifles .38 Spl, then .44/40 and another 1873 reproduction in .44 along with several Colt black power pistol copies.

No one else was interested in that kind of shooting so I kept them for about ten years then had to sell ( I was starving). Now everyone shoots “cowboy” and I’m way too old for the game. I also bought one of the first muzzle loading rifles back in 1970. No one was interested in them either.

I then started shooting assault rifles in the early 1970’s but no one was interested. They were still in a “hunting” frame of mind and the .223 was too light for them.

Now Cowboy and assault rifles are “IN” and I’m way too old and crippled up to participate.

Bummer.

[ozzymandus]

OK, now that’s funny!

[Tijeras_Slim]

I don’t know if you’d like it. Sometimes it’s better to be the real deal and alone than just another part of the herd.

I get weird looks at the range with my 20’s revolvers, and occasionally shoot skeet and trap with 16 ga. Browning A-5’s.

[AnAmericanMother]

There's a guy in a motorized wheelchair in our club. The rules need to be modified a bit for him, but the club is happy to do that and he's out here shooting and having a good time. And there are a BUNCH of fellas out here that are hardly spring chickens (and I say that as a 52-year-old lady).

C'mon out!