Rick,
Had one of those things in cal. 45-60 when I collected long guns (too young to legaly purchase handguns).
"Big and heavy, don't know how the folks carried these rifles on horseback"
Absolutely, like a scaled-up, Brobdingnagian model 1873. They did carry them on horseback, though, mine was a heavy-use example, and the forend near the receiver was worn concave from being carried resting on a pommel.
Your wife's is a gorgeous example.
--Dwight
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