Allin-Springfield Rifle

A .50 caliber breech loading rifle. The first guns of this type to reach troops in Indian Territory arrived at Fort Kearney, Nebraska in June 1867, when Red Cloud and his Sioux were on the warpath, and there were about 700 rifles and 100,000 rounds of ammunition in the consignment. Until this time troops had been using muzzle loaders, which took some time to reload, and it was undoubtedly the rapid fire of the new rifles that saved the day at the Wagon-box fight on August 2nd, 1867.