Henry Carbine
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The Henry Carbine is a fictional gun
Gun
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, probably based on the Henry repeating rifle
Henry rifle
The Henry repeating rifle was a lever-action, breech-loading, tubular magazine rifle.-History:The original Henry rifle was a .44 caliber rimfire, lever-action, breech-loading rifle designed by Benjamin Tyler Henry in the late 1850s. The Henry rifle was an improved version of the earlier Volcanic...

. It was thought out by German
Germans
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 writer
Writer
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 Karl May
Karl May
Karl Friedrich May was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West, and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East . In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America...

 (who wrote in his novel
Novel
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s about Winnetou
Winnetou
Winnetou is a fictional Native American hero of several novels written by Karl May in German, including the sequels Winnetou I through Winnetou IV....

, Old Shatterhand
Old Shatterhand
Old Shatterhand is a fictional character in western novels by German writer Karl May . He is the German friend and blood brother of Winnetou, the fictional chief of the Mescalero tribe of the Apache...

 and Kara Ben Nemsi
Kara Ben Nemsi
Kara Ben Nemsi is a fictional character in the works of Karl May, best-selling 19th century German writer...

) as a gun named the Henry Carbine (in German
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 Henrystutzen) after its design engineer
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. It was constructed by Mr. Henry, a fictional gunsmith
Gunsmith
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 from Saint Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
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, and later given to his friend who became famous in the Wild West as Old Shatterhand and later in Arabian countries as Kara Ben Nemsi. In the world of Karl May's novels, this pump gun, or repeating rifle, was capable of firing 25 times without reloading and was renowned (with its owner) throughout the entire Wild West and in Arabian countries. Because it didn't need to be reloaded often (compared to more common rifles with one or two chambers) it was considered by native India
India
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ns and Arab
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s as a magic rifle.

See also

  • Bear Killer
  • The Silver Gun
  • Old Shatterhand
    Old Shatterhand
    Old Shatterhand is a fictional character in western novels by German writer Karl May . He is the German friend and blood brother of Winnetou, the fictional chief of the Mescalero tribe of the Apache...

  • Kara Ben Nemsi
    Kara Ben Nemsi
    Kara Ben Nemsi is a fictional character in the works of Karl May, best-selling 19th century German writer...

  • Winnetou
    Winnetou
    Winnetou is a fictional Native American hero of several novels written by Karl May in German, including the sequels Winnetou I through Winnetou IV....

  • Henry rifle
    Henry rifle
    The Henry repeating rifle was a lever-action, breech-loading, tubular magazine rifle.-History:The original Henry rifle was a .44 caliber rimfire, lever-action, breech-loading rifle designed by Benjamin Tyler Henry in the late 1850s. The Henry rifle was an improved version of the earlier Volcanic...

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