White Walker
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My grandpa, James Mett Shippee, had a revolver that he got from his dad, Levi Merritt Shippee. Levi, who was born in 1848, later held down the job of running the Missouri Pacific Railroad depot in Green Leaf, Kansas. One day somebody notified him that there was a kid down at the depot who was shooting holes in the walls, floor and ceiling of the place. Levi went over and took the pistol from the kid and told him that he could have his gun back when he was old enough to have one. The kid, whose last name was Dalton, never came back for it. That pistol is now in my Aunt's house in Seattle, Washington. She's afflicted with Alzheimer's now and her son, who is a liberal and who hates firearms, will probably let me buy it from him if I approach him about it. All my mom could tell me about the gun is that she believes it's a .44 of some type. If and when I get it, I'll gladly post pictures of it here.