New Parker and New Member

[Bill Murphy]

Your plain steel buttplate is commonly seen on Parker guns of that era. It is probably original. Early lowest grade Parkers often came with uncheckered wood, confirmed in early catalog references. See The Parker Story.

[Drew Hause]

Ron: click on 'Members List' and send a PM to Bruce Day. 5 minutes with him will likely answer most of your questions.

And for those uninterested in 'fly over' country and where the War Between the States actually began Pro-slavery Missourians and 'Free Staters' (later called Jayhawks) from the Kansas-Nebraska Territory started killing each other in 1856.

Quantrill's Sack of Lawrence August 21, 1863.
http://www.civilwarhistory.com/quantrill/quantrill.htm
http://www.kancoll.org/books/cordley...trel.raid.html



"The Tragic Prelude" by John Steuart Curry in the Capital Building, Topeka
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proj...brownhome.html