Later this week Gordon and I will be on the road, attending the Writers Cantina conference in Utah, so there will be no “Firearms Friday” post. As a compromise, this episode of the History Files podcast, which originally aired in February of 2016, contains a mini-episode of “Gordon’s Gun Closet” as a special segment, which we did occasionally before spinning it off into its own podcast. In this GGC segment Gordon talks about the Fusil Charleville, which ties in nicely with the rest of the episode’s discussion of “The Black Count”.
As per usual, please disregard any codes or links for things like Audible, as those are also now part of history.
From the original show notes:
“This week we take a look at the origins of Alexander Dumas’ legendary literary figure, the Count of Monte Cristo. New writers are often told ‘write what you know’, and Dumas did exactly that. The heroic protagonists in his epic adventure tales were based on... his father; a larger-than-life individual who not only provided the characters for his writer son’s stories but many of their feats of derring-do.”
Links:
Fort Ross, California (fortross.org)
1925 serum run to Nome (wikipedia.org)
Hitler Becomes Army Commander (historyplace.com)
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Tom Reiss (amazon.com)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) (imdb.com)
Fusil Charleville (wikipedia.org)
The History Files Archives: ep 042