Regarding the multiple pistols of Salvador Flores, one of my specific reservations about "empire of the summer moon" was that the author seemed unaware that Texan combatants carried redundant weaponry prior to the Colt.
They carried redundant weaponry after Col. Colt as well. I remember reading the letters of a Reconstruction agent in far northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas. He said that every male above the age of fifteen or sixteen habitually went everywhere armed with two Colt revolvers.
