English Tower flintlock carbine of about 1812. Military carbines and muskets of Spanish, French and English manufacture were in use on the northern frontier during the late Spanish period and were purchased by the Mexicans particularly from the British and used by their cavalry into the 1850's. Now .80 caliber with a short, 22 inch barrel, this smoothbore weapon was usually called an escopeta.
In the collection of the ARIZONA PIONEERS' HISTORICAL
SOCIETY Tucson.
Photo by BRUCE D. LINDSAY. © 1965,
Arizona Historical Foundation