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

    11/10/2007 1:20:58 PM PST · by DogByte6RER · 72 replies · 401+ views
    Dallas News ^ | November 7, 2007 | Associated Press
    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...