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
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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
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