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By Golly, I found it! Havilah Babcock's "Fallen Lady" debuted in Field and Stream magazine in the May, 1962 issue (volume LXIX No. 1) on page 68, illustrated by Tom Rost with just the scene I thought I remembered. Last I saw that page I would have been 14 years old and probably a freshman in High school.
And the gun in question was a Parker!...Geo
"My find was an ancient Parker double, and I remembered that I'd once called her Fallen Lady."
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Thanks again George. You are officially a contributor to the articles! 
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You are quite welcome Dr. Drew. By the way, when I re-read the story, I saw no reference to either the gauge or the grade of the Lady.
It must be that a different version of the story appearing somewhere had the gun as a Lefever. That would make sense because the description of the TWIST barrels sounds a lot like an H Grade, doesn't it?...Geo
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You are quite welcome Dr. Drew. By the way, when I re-read the story, I saw no reference to either the gauge or the grade of the Lady.
It must be that a different version of the story appearing somewhere had the gun as a Lefever. That would make sense because the description of the TWIST barrels sounds a lot like an H Grade, doesn't it?...Geo The 1962- a year before his passing, F&S had a re-write of his original 1948 Fallen Lady- the first version, the gun was a LeFever, the second, a Parker-- Machts nicht-- one of the best of Babcock indeed.
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Fox, you sound like you know what you are talking about here. The article in 1962 makes no mention of a re-write from an earlier version. I have the 1962 magazine. I would have missed the 1948 version; I was busy getting born that year...Geo
Last edited by Geo. Newbern; 03/26/14 10:23 PM. Reason: added something
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I do not recall when I read it other than it would have been sometime from the late 50's to the mid 60's. I distinctly remember that when I read it the gun was a Lefever.
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Fox, you sound like you know what you are talking about here. The article in 1962 makes no mention of a re-write from an earlier version. I have the 1962 magazine. I would have missed the 1948 version; I was busy getting born that year...Geo Havilah Babcock was one of my all-time favorite Southern G'ent-men writes, along with Archibald Rutledge, and of course, De Ol Marster hisslf- T. Nash Buckingham. You are thusly 7 years my junior, Suh.. Love de Southland like old Phil Harris did-'cept I cain 't sing as he done did- and my all time favorite song is- Georgia on my Mind- Yassuh!!
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Fox, I've learned that when someone is as assured as you are about their facts, I take them seriously even when the evidence I've seen doesn't agree. Besides there is too much controversy over whether the "Lady" was a Parker or a Lefever for there not to be some truth to the idea that there must have been a previous or maybe later version of the story where the make of the gun was revised.
Just for my curiosity, Fox where do you find the information about the story originally appearing in F&S in 1948 and revised in the 1962 May edition I have?...Geo
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Side bar: for the gun to have shot as well as Babcock described it had to be a Lefever.
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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Would've made a lot more sense that he originally referenced the gun as a Lefever than a Parker; for unlike Parker barrels, seldom is barrel steel type noted on a Lefever barrel set (other than those with Whitworth or Krupp). So the trivia question for the curious would now be; why did the magazine change the gun name detail from Lefever to Parker when the story was reprinted in 1962?
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