From: sgrimm@dimensional.com   
      
   Some old west items sold at an auction in Cody, WY and the price:   
      
   . Sitting Bull's personal fringed tobacco bag, snatched from his body after   
   he was shot to death by Indian policemen in 1890 (sold for $8,500).   
      
   . A pair of silver-inlaid spurs made by a historic California saddlery in   
   the 1880s ($16,000).   
      
   . An original tintype of "bandit queen" Belle Starr ($7,000).   
      
   . A smattering of items including guns, badges, spurs, medals and handcuffs   
   once owned by "Happy Jack" Allen, the famous Wild West Show performer,   
   Wyoming marshal and one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders ($19,000).   
      
   . A parade saddle and accessories made in the 1940s in Hollywood ($26,000).   
      
   . An original 1880 cabinet-card photograph of Deadwood's famed Calamity Jane   
   ($3,750).   
      
   . An original oil painting of sharpshooting Annie Oakley ($10,000).   
      
   . An original tintype of Zerelda James Samuel, mother of Jesse and Frank   
   James ($1,300).   
      
   . An 1898 photograph of Apache leader Geronimo ($4,100).   
      
   . A single-action Colt Army revolver from the Indian Wars sold for an   
   astounding $26,000, while a similar handgun found on the Little Big Horn   
   battlefield, its barrel pitted by blood splatters, sold for a mere $6,500.   
      
   . Actor John Wayne's movie spurs, engraved with his initials ($2,500).   
      
   . Three 1905-10 promotional posters for Buffalo Bill's Wild West show (total   
   $17,500).   
      
   . An original gold-tone image signed by legendary Indian photographer Edward   
   Curtis ($8,000).   
      
   . A black leather gun belt custom-made for William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd,   
   by one of the most renowned leathertoolers of the 1950s. ($4,300).   
      
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