Potential 45-70 used for buffalo

[Caprock]

Hmmm. The Texas hunt was over by 1879 and the company was already in trouble. The government round should have gotten a head start there during the Bridgeport heyday. Maybe they just got by like Mooar and kept shootin what they had.

[Don McDowell]

Sam I think that's probably what most folks did, they probably could only afford 1 rifle. The great depression the country was well settled into after the Civil War is often overlooked in the overall picture of the country I think.
Billy Cody started his Wild West Show in 72 or 73 because they thought the west was over and folks needed to see the way it was..