Geeze! Now I gotta find the name of that Tejano packing a Colt against Comanches in 1840.
He could be the ONE, the first guy to pack a Colt against Comanches
Maybe if I can find a guy who brung a pepperbox earlier than that, he can get partial credit.
LOL! I know that some of the rangers did get some of the Navy’s Patersons. Hays may have had his own. Like you said, he could have afforded it!
You will discover that Gregg on one of his last trips to Santa Fe has purchased FOUR Paterson revolving pistos and two of the carbines to split between himself and his brother. On the return to St. Louis he doesn’t again mention the Patersons ( Im sure he sold them in Santa Fe for beaucoup money!). But he does have a Cochran turret rifle!!
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
