OE - GOOD - some minor replacement parts; metal smoothly rusted or lightly pitted in places, cleaned; principal lettering, numerals and design on metal legible; lightly scratched, bruised or minor cracks repaired; in good working order.

PRF - PROFESSIONALLY REFINISHED OR RESTORED

The rifle was manufactured in 1891 and has an etched panel on the right side plate reading "PAWNEE BILL's/FRONTIER/EXHIBITION." Includes a Bowie knife with a 13 5/8" blade with "PAWNEE BILL" on the right and "MAJ. G.W. LILLIE 1893" on the left, brass hilt, and horn grips (good with mottled gray and brown patina on the blade, aged patina on the brass, and general mild wear); a framed print of the "Two Bill's Show" group portrait, "PAWNEE BILLS 1911 TOUR" banner, "PAWNEE BILLS FAR EAST" banner, and "PAWNEE BILLS/HISTORICAL/WILD WEST/& FAR EAST" banner, "The Blazing Horizon" by Ernest Lynn, "Thrilling Lives of Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill" by Frank Winch, "Pawnee Bill: A Biography of Major Gordon W. Lillie" by Glenn Shirley, "Pawnee Bill" by Herman Edwin Mootz, 2011 souvenir program, "The Buffalo Bill Stories Devoted to the Far West: Buffalo Bill's Witchcraft or Pawnee Bill and the Snake Aztecs" Feb. 4, 1911, comic book; "The Buffalo Bill Stories Devoted to the Far West: Buffalo at Lone Tree Gap or Pawnee Bill in the Bear Pit" July 1, 1911, comic; "New Buffalo Bill Weekly Devoted to Far West Life: Buffalo Bill's Witchcraft" Sept. 8, 1917, comic; three additional comic issues printed, "Pawnee Bill's Original Wild West Show: Recollections of the 2010 Reenactment" DVD, and "In the Days of the Thundering Herd" with Tom Mix DVD. Gordon William Lillie (1860-1942) was better known as Pawnee Bill and was a Wild West showman. He was originally the Pawnee interpreter for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and later had his own "Pawnee Bill's Frontier Exhibition" in the late 1880s which included Annie Oakley in 1888 and "Pawnee Bill's Historical Wild West" ran with his wife May. They rejoined Buffalo Bill for the "Two Bills Show" in 1908. He and his wife also ran the Pawnee Bill Ranch in Pawnee, Oklahoma, where they had a bison herd and was an advocate for the preservation of the species.