What rifle is this?

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I've never seen a lever-action with the stock going almost all the way to the end of the barrel.

What rifle is this?




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Looks like a ‘76, with that long receiver it looks like a bigger caliber than the ‘73 offered. I could be wrong, the ‘73 has a longish receiver for the smaller cartridges it chambered, too.

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It was common for photographers to keep various weapons on hand for when their customers wanted to look dangerous but left their guns at home. C.S. Fly was big on this, and several of his images of Apaches warriors feature the same Stevens Tip-Up rifle.

Stagecoach Mary was said to carry a shotgun while driving, but that '76 in no shotgun. It may even be an RCMP carbine.
 
Photography studios had lots of props; guns were among them. Often they were non-working specimens picked up cheap.
Civil War pictures are famous for having not only prop guns, but prop uniforms also. When you know what unit a person was in, and the uniform in the picture does not match, often it was a prop uniform.
 
'76 that likely belonged to the photographer and employed as a prop.

Certainly true that 19th century photographers provided props. Several internet sources say Fields carried a rifle and a revolver on her mail route. One reference says she could outshoot most men with both firearms. The only other picture of her I found shows her with a double barreled shotgun. As a firearms historian for a state museum, I have learned it is very difficult to answer these sorts of questions with any certainty absent documented provenance. Time and careless researchers distort the truth.
 
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