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Bryant Ridge's Analysis: The Hawken rifle, generally shorter and of a larger caliber than the earlier Kentucky rifle, rose to prominence in the mid-nineteenth century. Although the name originally referred to rifles handcrafted by Jacob and Samuel Hawken of St. Louis, Missouri, it has since become a broader term used to describe various "plains rifles" from that period. Today, modern reproductions of the Hawken rifle are produced by manufacturers in several countries, including the United States …