Mass production made the guns affordable. Reliability and accuracy made the Colt a favorite of soldiers and frontiersmen. The Colt depicted is a Third Model Dragoon percussion revolver (ca.

Jesse James lived by the revolver ... Samuel Colt died only a year into the Civil War, but his company continued to produce new, deadlier models. The 1860 Army Colt shot .44 caliber bullets ...

Moylan survived Custer’s Last Stand, his Colt cavalry model revolver by his side. "The gun is not only identified with the ...