13 Deadliest Old West Guns Banned From Saloons

#WildWest #OldWest #CowboyHistory 13 Deadliest Old West Guns Banned From Saloons In 1953, in a brick row house in South Philadelphia, a steelworker's wife sat at the kitchen table on a Friday night and divided his thirty-eight-dollar pay envelope into seven labeled jars before he had finished taking off his boots. She handed him back two dollars and called it his spending money for the week, and he took it without a word, because in that house the rent, the coal, the milk bill, and the burial insurance were her department, not his. Not the helpless homemaker. Resources National Museum of American History page on Henry Deringer pocket pistols and the Booth-Lincoln assassination weapon - https://americanhistory.si.edu/collec... Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site collection entry on the Philadelphia Deringer used by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln - https://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/f... City of Deadwood official historic preservation timeline entry on the August 2, 1876 killing of Wild Bill Hickok by Jack McCall in Nuttall & Mann’s No. 10 Saloon - https://www.cityofdeadwood.com/histor... Smithsonian Magazine article “Gun Control Is as Old as the Old West” covering frontier gun ordinances in Dodge City, Abilene, Tombstone, Deadwood and other towns - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor... National Firearms Museum / NRA Museums page on the Colt Walker revolver, its development with Texas Ranger Samuel Walker, production numbers and .44 caliber performance - https://www.nramuseum.org/guns/the-ga... Wells Fargo corporate history article “The legend of the shotgun messenger” on stagecoach guards, short double-barreled “coach guns,” and the origin of the phrase riding shotgun - https://www.wellsfargohistory.com/leg... "Copyright Disclaimer" Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, education or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.