Old Western Cowboy Replica Cowboy SAA Revolvers by Jastro Historic Armory

A wide variety of handguns were produced during and after the Civil War. Smith & Wesson had pioneered the development of metallic cartridges for pistols and were ready to manufacture something really revolutionary, the first cartridge revolver. When Colt's original patent covering the revolving cylinder expired in 1857, Smith & Wesson had purchased the Rollin White patent for boring the cylinder all the way through so that a cartridge could be inserted in the back. White offered this method to Colt, but Colt, not thinking in terms of metallic cartridges, had turned it down. Consequently Smith & Wesson had a monopoly on cartridge revolvers. They began with a seven-shot .22, added a .32 and .44, many of which were carried as sidearms by Civil War soldiers. Buffalo Bill owned a Smith & Wesson .44; so did Texas Jack Omohundro, associate of Bill's in the Wild West Show.  Then in 1869 the Rollin White patent expired and Colt and other firms jumped into the cartridge revolver field quickly. Shortly, Colt appeared with an entirely new line of cartridge revolvers including the famous .45 Single Action Army Model 1873, also called the "Peacemaker" and the "Frontier" Model. This famous six-shooter was the cowboy's and gunfighters' pistol and was carried by both military and civilian personnel.

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