Colt’s factory in Hartford, Connecticut turned out 215,348 Navy models in the course of its history.

Imagination knows no bounds in the Wild Wild West, and this toy set encourages kids to embark on exciting adventures.

This revolver went through two iterations before landing at the popular New Model Russian, which was manufactured between 1874 and 1878. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This product can expose you to chemicals including lead, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and reproductive harm. These costumes are sourced direct from our supplier and take a little longer to dispatch than normal. It is from this time that the term “riding shotgun” originates, though it seems to have been invented long after the heyday of the Wells Fargo stages.

Although gun control was surprisingly prevalent and successful in the Wild West, most people indeed owned firearms. The Gatling gun was one of the most unused weapons of the Old West, but perhaps one of the most important. George Custer had access to Gatling guns, but declined to bring them to the Little Big Horn since they were so cumbersome.Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather notes that the Sharp rifle was the one against which other rifles were measured in the Old West.