The Hawken
The Hawken rifle has been claimed by many to be the most beautiful rifle of all
time. It has even been referred to as the "Stradivarius of firearms". Its beauty
lies not in fancy engravings or finishes, but in its graceful flowing lines and
simplicity. Never before or since has a rifle reached the perfect convergence of
form and function. Like the steam locomotive, the Hawken rifle occupied only a
brief window of time in American history, until it was passed on by improved
technology and quietly forgotten. The Hawken rifle was made popular in the
seventies by the movie Jeremiah Johnson starring Robert Redford, and is based
on a true story about one of the original mountain men.
During the 1840s the settlers and trappers such as Kit Carson and Jim Bridger
were moving West across the Mississippi River into uncharted wilderness and
living off the land in extremely harsh conditions for several months, even
years. The rifles at the time were slim and graceful, of the Kentucky and
Pennsylvania type, and of relatively small bore. Many were ordained with German
silver furniture, ornamentation and engraving. What the mountain man needed was
a shorter more powerful rifle that was also a very dependable and utilitarian
tool. The St. Louis gun shop of Samuel an
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