The U.S. Army ordered both rolling-block rifles and carbines in .50-70 and made some rolling blocks at their Springfield Armory facility in this caliber.

In 1867, these rifles played a pivotal role in holding off an attacking force of 300-1,000 Lakota Sioux Indians during the Wagon Box Fight.

[7] Despite a strict ban of fixed ammunition sales to Native Americans, they were not restricted from acquiring lead (for bullets), black powder and percussion caps for their "obsolete" muskets.

Here's how they reloaded these cartridges: This was dramatized on Death Valley Days, season 7, episode 15 titled "A Bullet for the Captain"[8] Newer improved versions were made and used by the Army until 1873.

During the second half of the 1860s, general Hermann Kanzler expanded and reformed the army of the Papal States, and part of that ca.

Modern-made functional replicas of caliber .50-70 historical rifles have been imported into the US by such firms as Davide Pedersoli and A. Uberti, Srl.