[D] There were no metallic cartridge shells in use in those days, the cartridges for Sharp's rifles and all firearms being put up in paper. The Sharp's rifle carbine, which was one of the earliest breech-loaders brought into use on the frontier, had been adopted by the government for the cavalry service and was also a favorite buffalo gun among frontiersmen generally. Their extreme effective range was eight hundred yards, the longest-range guns then in use on the plains. The Colt's navy pistols we used then would shoot with the force and accuracy of a rifle for about three hundred yards. I remember seeing a sergeant in the Second Dragoons kill an antelope one day with a Colt's navy (taking a dead rest) at a distance of three hundred paces. The regulation "pace" is thirty inches.
[E] This firm about this time minted private gold coins known as Pike's Peak coins.
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