It was overshadowed by Colt revolvers The powerful .44- caliber cap-and-ball Walker Colt and its lighter-framed, shorter-barreled derivative, the Model 1848 Colt Dragoon revolver, were hits on the Western frontier after the Mexican War. But before that conflict and even after (well into the 1850s), a decidedly unglamorous single-shot muzzleloading percussion cap piece was making …
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