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This brass trigger guard was recovered during excavations in 2014 of the Adair Cabin site, home of Reverend Samuel and Florella Brown Adair and their family, in Osawatomie, Kansas. Trigger guards are meant to surround the trigger and protect it from accidental discharge. Osawatomie and the Adairs were much involved with the abolitionist movement during the "Bleeding Kansas" years.
Date: 1855-1912
Item Number: 446335
Call Number: 14MM327-563-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446335
Collections - Archeology
Military - Weapons - Firearms
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - European Americans
Places - Cities and towns - Osawatomie
Places - Counties - Miami
Places - Historic sites - John Brown Museum
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
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