Unhappily, it was too often the means of breaking the peace, but that is a conundrum I cannot easily resolve. The Peacemaker was what you used when you went out to make the peace. That’s simply because there were far more specimens of the Colt in circulation than any of the other three major brands. Even if the researchers had never discovered anything about the armament used at the OK Corral shooting, it would have been statistically unlikely for anything other than the traditional Colt to be present. There was also a 12-gauge Meteor scattergun, suitably shortened for intimate conflict, in play. Virgil Earp reportedly preferred the Smith & Wesson marque and was so armed when he joined two of his five brothers on their legendary stroll down to the OK Corral. It is probably true that Wyatt and his brother Morgan Earp, as well as the tubercular dentist “Doc” Holliday, carried Colt Peacemakers on that autumn day in 1881. Shown above, from left to right, Colt Single Action Army "Peacemaker," Merwin-Hulbert Frontier, Smith & Wesson No. Larger production numbers than its competitors put more Colt Peacemakers in consumers’ hands than other frontier-era gunmakers. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select Shooting Illustrated as your member magazine. This article, "The Other Frontier Revolvers," appeared originally as a Fightin' Iron column in the December 2017 issue of Shooting Illustrated.
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