3,000 guns, of which about 2,000 were displayed

1935 – 1993

Reno, NV

• February 23, 1935 Harolds Club in a tiny space in Reno
• famed billboards saying “Harolds Club or Bust” erected across the world
• Roaring Camp was a specific room in Harolds Club
• 1960s, the collection included some 3,000 guns, of which about 2,000 were displayed in the Roaring Camp Room, the Silver Dollar Bar, and elsewhere
• 1964 I-80 freeway built
• 1967 Raymond I. “Pappy” Smith died (80)
• 1993 The Fitzgerald Group had bought Harolds Club from the Summa Corporation
• May 3, 1994 the collection was sold to the Butterfield & Butterfield auction house of San Francisco and the guns were auctioned off

the original gun collection

• 1946 Raymond Stagg, opened the Roaring Camp Club
• The original gun collection
• a few blocks from Harolds

http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/harolds-club-roaring-camp-gun-collection

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Roaring Camp Gun Collection

• John Fremont
• Kit Carson
• Jedediah Smith
• .44 Colt owned by silent film cowboy star William S. Hart
• pistols used in a Sept. 13, 1859 duel in which California Chief Justice David S. Terry fatally shot U.S. Sen. David C. Broderick
• numerous Kentucky rifles
• four-barreled flintlock
• mid-nineteenth century percussion revolvers
• revolvers possibly used by outlaw Jesse James
• almost every Colt manufactured between 1836 and 1902
• pistols carried by Napoleon when he invaded Russia
• .32 caliber Smith & Wesson owned by Emperor Maximilian of Mexico
• 1850 combination rifle and shotgun made for King William of Holland