Pawn Stars: RARE HISTORIC RIFLE from the Battle of Wounded Knee (Season 8) | History

Dude, what did I tell you about guys who don't take your life, don't play with them, aren't toys? I know I am a master ninja sensei, how can I help you? I have a Winchester 1873, oh sweet, it was from the Battle of Wounded Knee and I got the documents to prove it, really yeah, I mean, it's pretty significant in

history

. What is the Battle of Wounded Knee? The Battle of Wounded Knee Darr, the Wounded Knee massacre because that space blade was in the winter of 1890 South Dakota, the Lakota Indians were camped next to a river, the 7th Calvary was going to disarm them, they entered the camp, one of The Indians did not want to give up their weapon somewhere a shot rang out, the 7th Cavalry started shooting like crazy, basically.

That is, they began to massacre everyone. This was the last major conflict, I believe, with the American Indians. The Wounded Knee Massacre was a huge mistake by the US military, most of the Native Americans that were killed were not even armed, including women and children, and it is important in

history

because this was basically the end of the Indian wars that had been going on since Columbus landed here. How much do you want to get out of this? I wouldn't take less than 60,000. I just want everyone to see it. I just want to make sure this was actually from the Battle of Wounded Knee, you have documentation here.

I just want to make sure everything works correctly. Yes, the Winchesters were popular with Native Americans for the same reasons they were popular with whites because they were extremely reliable, extremely powerful. and it was just a really cool weapon and most of these weapons were just traded for, well there was even a time when the United States military actively sought to arm Native Americans and obviously they would do that with tribes that were in good terms with the government and also some of them were obviously taken in

battle

, so the Native Americans had guns for a long time and the Wounded Knee Massacre was really the last major event of the Indian Wars of the 19th century, a really terrible time In the history of Western America, the Wounded Knee Massacre was unfortunately a time when attitudes towards Native Americans were still quite negative, but this was a time when things began to change somewhat more sympathetically towards Native Americans if we can link it directly to the Wounded Knee massacre, the Seventh Calvary. the importance of the weapon increases dramatically, it's much more than your standard 73 carbine, well let's take a look and see what we have here, so what we have here are the second to none ordinance warehouses, basically it's an excel spreadsheet 19th century, I mean, it's a sheet that says what the serial numbers are, the condition, and what they were going to do with it.

Colonel James Forsythe, he was the commander of the 7th Calvary, so it makes sense. January 3, 1891. Now, what is interesting about that particular day after the

battle

took place on December 29? The weather was terrible as a result of the snow storm. It was not until several days later that the 7th Cavalry was able to return to the scene of the battle and actively collect and collect all the weapons that had been discarded by some of the other names. here, although he was older, he was the commander of the 1st squadron, so most of what we're seeing here matches up.

I mean, these are the names we should see, these are the dates we should see, so here's the list for this weapon. show me yes, 631. I think it's this 631. Let's take a look here. Okay, and then the serial number is, you know, it says 5 0 4 2 3. We have a Winchester 73 carbine. 5 0 4 2 3. Okay, then. I have very good documentation here, so now the only thing we don't have in any of this is Wounded Knee. Those two words are missing from everything we have here, but given all the information we have on the two people, the dates. I think we can assume that this weapon was taken after the Wounded Knee massacre.

Well, that's what I want to hear. Aren't you going to put a price on it? Well, I work in a museum. I'm not an appraiser. I'm not going to put a financial value here. I was hoping you'd probably say it was worth a couple hundred thousand and then I could say "well, give me 60%." I'm sure you were fine. I'm convinced it's from the Wounded Knee masker. Let's talk about your price. You want too much. You just don't get that kind of money for a gun unless there's something very, very special and it's associated with an individual.

I'd give you like 14,000. dollars for it, oh yeah, I mean if you put this up for auction you'll get around that number, I actually have 12,000 on it, you have 12,000 under the gun, so what's the lowest number you go? I'm going to 50, obviously, we're not going to do anything. business check like I said, I'm really being completely honest with you, you know, I think you're fine, have a good day, thank you very much, this guy is crazy if he thinks I'm paying 50 grand for that gun, plain and simple, I hope stinks. around town he gets a lot of prices and crawls back to me.