Famous Guns
I would guess that more people know of TR's "Big Medicine" Winchester than of Bo Whoop, which had been all but forgotten outside of Fox circles.
And, if you went to your local gun show and asked a hundred people what was more valuable, Nash's BoWhoop or Colt Peacemaker No 1, I would guess most would take the original prototype for the Peacemaker, which I had in my possession for a very brief while when it was being auctioned by Christies back in the 1980s.
And, then there is the modified Winchester lever action that John Wayne used to swing around to load in the movies. An awful lot of people would recognize and want that gun.
Bo Whoop is an important part of Americana, but it seems to me most likely that a couple of addicted Fox owners fulfilled a dream by buying it at any price. May the Buyer enjoy it in good health. Should be good for the Fox Collectors to have the "legitimacy" of a Fox selling for real money.
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