Browning 1900 Pistol Series Of Prophesies

Joseph Smith 5 was set upon and killed by a mob in 1846, and Brigham Young, one of Smiths more ardent followers, decided that he would lead the faithful westward, in search of a safe haven.

His father, Jonathan, had been born among the sparsely settled Tennessee hills, northeast of Nashville, in 1805.

In those early days the flintlock rifles, fowling pieces, and pistols of the era were among the basic tools of daily life, necessary for self defense and hunting.

Jonathan took a strong interest in guns at an early age, attracted by their mechanisms and construction, rather than by their utility.

Later, he made his way to Nashville, where he worked at the shop of an established gunmaker until his own skills were fully developed.

In 1824, while he was still only nineteen years old, Jonathan completed his apprenticeship by making his own fine flintlock rifle.

He then set up shop in Sumner County, Tennessee, married, and settled down to his lifes work and the raising of a family.

In 1834 he loaded his family and their belongings onto wagons and set out on a four hundred mile trek to Quincy, Illinois, a new and fast growing town on the Mississippi River, squarely in the path of westward migration.

It was here, during the next eight years, that two elements came together in Jonathan s life, with results that would shape the destiny of his yet unborn son, John M.

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Percussion cap ignition had been invented just a few years earlier, and it quickly swept the flintlock aside.

The cap was far more reliable than the flintlock, and it opened new possibilities for further developments, such as repeating arms.

Jonathan exploited this potential by inventing a truly elegant repeating rifle.

It was a.45 caliber underhammer design, with a horizontal opening cut through the receiver.

The magazine was a simple steel block, made to fit into the opening.

It was bored with five or more chambers, which could be preloaded with powder and ball.

At the base of each chamber, a snug nipple held the primer cap.

The block was placed in the rifle, and each charge could be locked into position by means of a simple lever mounted on the side of the weapon.

As each round was fired, the shooter would unlock the block and move it into position for the next shot.

Joseph Smith had founded a new religious sect, called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, otherwise known as Mormons.

Browning 1900 Pistol Series Of Prophesies

Their theology was based on a series of prophesies, which, according to Smith, had come to him in visions.

The zeal of Smiths followers was to intense that the Mormon Church was the fastest growing religious group in the United States, but there had also been serious problems.

Some of Smiths teachings were viewed with scorn by more orthodox society, and the Mormons aggravated the uneasiness of outsiders by adopting a clannish and isolated lifestyle.

This led to suspicions and to several incidents of persecution and violence against Smith and his Mormon followers.

In 1839 they established a settlement in Illinois, a little more than forty miles north of Quincy.

They named their new town Nauvoo, and it quickly became a model Mormon community, from which they reached out in search of still more converts.

Just a few years later, however, he and his family were swept up in the great Mormon exodus.

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