Reach for the Sky, Mister!
Headline: Geronimo's rifle, Wyatt Earp's shotgun auctionSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Springfield rifle owned by the famed Apache warrior Geronimo fetched $100,000 during an auction of Wild West guns and weapons that brought in more than $1 million.
I wonder how an auction of this type would work. Would you raise your hand when you wanted to bid on an item, or would you just shoot a whiskey bottle off of the bar?
I would imagine for Custer's saber, one would just have to wave a white flag.
Hopefully, it was a silent auction. God only knows how irritating it would be to hear a roomful of people yelling Geronimo every 3 seconds.
It's pretty cool, though, that those Wild West guns collected more than a million dollars. I would imagine the last time that happened, train/bank robberies were involved.
posted by On My Watch at 04:19
9 Comments:
$100,000?!? Are you kidding me!?!
I can think of many, many better ways to spend that. Like maybe a time machine to go back and buy it when it was cheaper.
-- david
usually the way I remember it, when screaming out the name "Geramino", one was supposed to follow it up with a cannonball...:)
oops!
*Geronimo
David: No joke. I'm thinking they would've handed them over to you, without question, if you would show up in a time machine.
John: Cannonballs will cost you extra. :)
shoot a whiskey bottle off of the bar... that's the way it's done here in texas!!! ha!!
Mindy: don't you mean, yee-ha?
:-)
All I wanna know is how many wild west legends did skydivers go through before they settled on Geronimo? "Billy the KIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid!". Nah, doesn't have the same ring to it.
Ray: true and hilarious!! :-)
oh crap.. yes, of course, i meant yee-ha!!
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