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TO EVERYONE:
Does anyone here KNOW what constitutes an "original muzzleloader", given that MANY parts were "re-cycled" into another "quite different firearm" out "on the western frontier"???
For one example, Mrs. Harriet Anne (Moore) Potter (Wife "By Bond" of Robert Potter, TX Secretary of War & RoT Congressman), noted huntress and markswoman, participant in The Runaway Scrape, called "Panther Woman" and "Greatly Admired Healer" by local NA tribes, stated in her memoirs that she had a "large calibre capped rifle muskit" (sic) built by a "good smithy-works" at Nacogdoches "of two escopetas that My Dear and Beloved Robert traded for" about 1840. - From Mrs. Potter's writings, the only details about the "rifle muskit" was that the stock was made of "wilde cherrywood" and that she won "divers shoots and prizes with" it and "kilt many bears, wildecats and deers" (sic) when she lived at "our beautiful and romantic lovenest at Potter's Point" on Caddo Lake.
Note 1: At that time, the Caddo Lake area was "The Neutral Ground" being considered to be neither in TX or in LA. - Those Northeast Texicans, who inhabit the Caddo Lake area were once/briefly at least a "quasi-republic", which had an elected government, a flag (a white over red bar), a "national motto" (Strength and Honor), and army and navy (at least on paper), a national anthem (entitled: SWORD & CROSS) and at least 2 "gun-boats", that patrolled the Sabine River. - Much of what is known of "The Caddoian Republic" comes from her diaries and the private/public correspondence of "the quasi-republic's officers" to the RoT's government officers.
(Harriet M. Potter's unpublished diaries, journals, private correspondence, many letters to/from the RoT congress and courts and her memoirs were bought from her youngest son's estate and are in the historical collections of The University of New Orleans. - Those memoirs are the basis of the "slightly fictionalized" book LOVE IS A WILD ASSAULT by Elithe Hamilton Kirkland.)
Note 2: Her full legal name was: Harriet Anne (nee Moore) Page Potter Ames. She was born in 1810 in NY and died in 1902 in New Orleans.
(As readers have likely guessed, Harriet Potter, "our very own Northeast Texas Wildcat", is one of "my interests" and I'm trying to gather enough "new historical material" to write a monograph on her life at Caddo Lake, both Potter's participation in "The Caddoian Republic" filibustering and her adoption by/relations with our tribal government from about 1838-50.)
yours, satx
Does anyone here KNOW what constitutes an "original muzzleloader", given that MANY parts were "re-cycled" into another "quite different firearm" out "on the western frontier"???
For one example, Mrs. Harriet Anne (Moore) Potter (Wife "By Bond" of Robert Potter, TX Secretary of War & RoT Congressman), noted huntress and markswoman, participant in The Runaway Scrape, called "Panther Woman" and "Greatly Admired Healer" by local NA tribes, stated in her memoirs that she had a "large calibre capped rifle muskit" (sic) built by a "good smithy-works" at Nacogdoches "of two escopetas that My Dear and Beloved Robert traded for" about 1840. - From Mrs. Potter's writings, the only details about the "rifle muskit" was that the stock was made of "wilde cherrywood" and that she won "divers shoots and prizes with" it and "kilt many bears, wildecats and deers" (sic) when she lived at "our beautiful and romantic lovenest at Potter's Point" on Caddo Lake.
Note 1: At that time, the Caddo Lake area was "The Neutral Ground" being considered to be neither in TX or in LA. - Those Northeast Texicans, who inhabit the Caddo Lake area were once/briefly at least a "quasi-republic", which had an elected government, a flag (a white over red bar), a "national motto" (Strength and Honor), and army and navy (at least on paper), a national anthem (entitled: SWORD & CROSS) and at least 2 "gun-boats", that patrolled the Sabine River. - Much of what is known of "The Caddoian Republic" comes from her diaries and the private/public correspondence of "the quasi-republic's officers" to the RoT's government officers.
(Harriet M. Potter's unpublished diaries, journals, private correspondence, many letters to/from the RoT congress and courts and her memoirs were bought from her youngest son's estate and are in the historical collections of The University of New Orleans. - Those memoirs are the basis of the "slightly fictionalized" book LOVE IS A WILD ASSAULT by Elithe Hamilton Kirkland.)
Note 2: Her full legal name was: Harriet Anne (nee Moore) Page Potter Ames. She was born in 1810 in NY and died in 1902 in New Orleans.
(As readers have likely guessed, Harriet Potter, "our very own Northeast Texas Wildcat", is one of "my interests" and I'm trying to gather enough "new historical material" to write a monograph on her life at Caddo Lake, both Potter's participation in "The Caddoian Republic" filibustering and her adoption by/relations with our tribal government from about 1838-50.)
yours, satx
