Tom Custer's Galand & Sommerville Revolver

[Shotgun Steve]

In summer 1869, Custer was 'tenting on the plains' with wife Libbie and brother Tom at Big Creek near Fort Hays, Kansas. From there they hosted buffalo hunts for the travelling English Lords Berkeley Paget and, according to which source you read, either Lord Henry Cavendish or Lord Waterford. In a grand gesture of appreciation, Berkeley Paget presented Custer and brother Tom with a cased Webley .44 Galand & Sommerville revolver each. Tom's was sold at auction on behalf of the Charles A. Custer Family Collection by Butterfield & Butterfield of San Francisco on April 4, 1995. It made $77,000.