Parker History-please participate

[Bruce Day]

If a research letter is available, get it and ask for a copy of the order book page also.

Then Google. The internet search engines are wonderful tools. Ask here also.

Matt, I see where you acquired a rather beat up 0 grade hammer gun. We had a member here who acquired another 0 grade hammer gun, little better condition, got a research letter saying that it was originally ordered by a Denver CO retailer for Charles Springer of Las Vegas, NM. Well in that area of the country they hardly come more famous than Charles Springer, a town is named after him, he was one of the landowners who hired enforcers in the cattlemen/squatter wars, and his 100,000 acre ranch is still in the family and I have met some of his family. So who knows about your gun?

[Bill Murphy]

Bruce is correct in suggesting google and other search engines as well as ancestry.com to try to pick up a name reference. If the gun is identified by name or initials on the gun or in the letter, and is a competition type of gun, I would be willing to assist as would Chris Lien or the Reverend Drew Hause. Another source of name recognition is la84foundation.com. Their search function has helped me to identify many competition shooters and their background. Use the "Sporting Life" option for searching individual magazines. The Griffin and Howe research service is another source of information on original and subsequent gun ownership. Bob Beach at Griffin and Howe is our friend and an avid researcher and is in charge of the research files up there.