W. Parker Jr. owner of Lyon Pony Express Museum at Arcadia, Calif., helps his father carry the longest shotgun in the world from Museum Gun Room

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  America's First Citizen! Wooden Indians in the Parker Lyon Collection at the Pony Express Museum, Arcadia, Calif

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  Image of cigar-store Indians in the Parker Lyon Collection at the Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, California, with watch faces mounted on cattle branded wooden posts that read "Sherrard Jeweler," and "The Ingersoll Watches."

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  Outside a hobby train, Inside huge Buildings, 99 other Hobbies, Lyon Pony Express Museum, Arcadia, Calif

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  Image of a train outside of the Lyon Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, California, with signs that read "Wild West Relics 1849," "Pony Express Museum," "Wells Fargo & Co. Express," and "Collected by one man W. Parker."

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  Charles Owens and R. Braddock letter to W. Parker Lyon

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  Letter from Charles Owens and R. Braddock to W. Parker Lyon discussing a donation to the Pony Express Museum. The donation was evidence of a denouncement or mining claim of Ignacio Soto and James W. Wakes in Santa Clara County. The claim resulted in some quicksilver production. Includes a translation of the denouncement.

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