Here are a couple more of our favorite target holders but sans rifles (carrying concealed?). Does the gal on the right look familiar? What are the odds? But yes, you have seen her before.

Other than "festive" being more appropriate than "good", that's a fine translation.

Bill Lawrence

Wow!  There's a woman after me own 'eart.  And with a selection of firepower that seems simply too personalized to be photo studio props.  That is, the Sharps is cool enough, but I'm pretty sure she's got a brace of Merwin & Hulbert (or just maybe Hopkins & Allen) Army Model revolvers, with ivory grips yet, and wearing them butt forward in a customized rig to boot.  I'd also bet the hat came from her shop!

Bill Lawrence

powderman wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2020 at 1:21am:

Is that a cleaning rod mounted under the barrel???? Also has a "Hawken" style cheek piece and but plate!  COOL!

Samantha looks like she might also be packing a Bowie.

Samantha's Sharps has the style of many western guns, especially the Sharps rifles customized by A. J. late of San Francisco.  And, yes, there's a rod under that whopper of a barrel and she does have a knife, though to me the handle looks rather bland for a Bowie.  In any case, it's the pistol rig that seems most personalized and interesting.

I wonder what the Earps and Holiday thought of her.

Bill Lawrence

I find all of the leather clothing quite interesting. I ran into a fellow hunting in Colorado a few years back we were both out in the middle of no where we ran across each other. It was colder than all get out when we both stopped to talk. He was wearing elk skin clothing he had made for himself from the bottom to the top. Myself the regular store bought extreme cold weather stuff. I asked him how his leather clothing was working out in this snow and cold wind. He said it is the warmest and most comfortable cold weather clothing that he has tried in the past. And then something to effect it keeps him just as comfortable as the elk that once wore it to provide him with the same extreme cold weather protection. I just thought some of you might find it a bit interesting and probably why those folks in the pictures also wore it for the same reason.

I'm referring to Bent_Ramrod's previous comment,

The Sharps in Reply # 35, the photo following Ms. Fallon's, may also have a slightly smaller and slightly longer barrel than hers; but its stock definitely has a flat butt plate and no cheek piece while hers has a cheek piece and a curved butt.

Also, although likely not as much as a brothel, hotels brought in good, steady money as did ladies' hats. so I'd venture that Ms. Fallon could indeed afford her whole outfit.

Bill Lawrence