as Western novelists love to write) in our nostrils, let us slap leather. Here are the greatest handguns of the Old West—every one a Colt. This Colt Paterson revolver, in its original case ...

Colt relaunched the revolver as the “Frontier Six-Shooter ... The M1873 was used extensively across the nineteenth century western frontier by all sides, from the U.S. Army to white settlers ...

By the second half of the 19th century, American arms makers Colt, Remington ... Winchester Model 1873, a gun so iconic that it was the title of a James Stewart Western. (These are the 30 best ...

1825 ca. - Percussion-cap guns are in general use. 1830 - The back action lock appears. 1835 - The first Colt revolver. Samuel Colt developed the first mass-produced, multi-shot, revolving firearms.

Museum staff determined the old pistol to be a Colt Single Action Army single-action revolver with a barrel length of 7½ inches. Based on its serial number it was assessed as being manufactured ...