True Story: 1861 muzzle loader vs Maynard carbine shooting contest. Who won?

NOTE: Narration is my own voice reading my original, researched script. All images are real historical images or my own graphics; none are AI-generated. In 1861, a gold miner paid forty dollars for the newest rifle in the territory, and his friends bet their money and horses on it. By nightfall they were "flat broke and afoot," beaten at 600 yards by an older marksman named Pushigan with a muzzle-loader and a homemade iron sight, while a young Shoshone named Tendoy looked on. This is the true story of a Sunday shooting match at Grantsville, in what's now Montana. It's told from the journal of one of the men who lost, and checked against government records and museum archives. Along the way you'll meet Johnny Grant, the Métis trader who hosted the match, and learn how Tendoy went on to lead the Lemhi Shoshone through some of the hardest years in their history. Was it the rifle, the sight, or the man? And would you have taken Tendoy's place and turned down that rifle? Tell us in the comments. This is Episode 1 of FRONTIER GAMBLERS, a series on the bets, games and wagers of the American frontier. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one. SOURCES WE VERIFIED AGAINST • Granville Stuart, Forty Years on the Frontier, Vol. 1 (Arthur H. Clark, 1925), pp. 188–192, the journal account of the match • U.S. House of Representatives, Report No. 1830, 52nd Congress, 1st Session (1892), on Tendoy's pension • National Park Service, Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site (Johnny Grant) • Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame (Tendoy biography) • University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center (Tendoy) • Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives (Tendoy portrait) IMAGE CREDITS Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division: Creedmoor rifle match (A.B. Frost, 1876); American rifle team at Dollymount (1875); Cooper with barrel (c. 1840); Emigrant train (1866); Hudson's Bay Company posts at Fort Colville and Fort Vancouver (1860); Virginia City hydraulic mining (1871); Nez Perce Campaign (1877); Chief Joseph (1903); Puyallup hop ranch (1888); U.S. Capitol (M. Franke, 1889); Dr. Edward Maynard (c. 1870); Soldier with a first-model Maynard carbine (Liljenquist Family Collection); Lemhi County, Idaho (FSA/OWI, 1942); Grant-Kohrs Ranch (HABS) Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division: Oregon and Washington Territory (1859) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0): percussion longrifles and powder flask Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives: Tendoy, photographed by Charles M. Bell, Washington, D.C., 1880 (BAE GN 01675A) National Park Service, Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS: Johnny Grant portrait Granville Stuart's drawings, portrait and journal pages: Forty Years on the Frontier (1925), public domain, via Internet Archive Maps by Old West Stories from Natural Earth data (public domain). Some images are representative and labeled on screen. MUSIC "Americana," "Cowboy Sting," "Crowd Hammer," "Decline," "Drankin Song," "Evening," "Heart of Nowhere," "Lost Frontier," "Lost Time," "Reawakening" and "Thinking Music" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Sound effects: Freesound.org contributors (CC0) CORRECTIONS History is a team sport. If you spot an error, comment with your source and I'll check it out. #OldWest #MontanaHistory #FrontierHistory