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[[File:Winchester_1873Colt-arme-1860-p1030159_(1).jpg|thumbnail|250px320px|left|Winchester Model 1873Colt 1860 Army]]
It rode on the hip of Buffalo Bill Cody, Teddy Roosevelt, Judge Roy Bean and Pat Garrett, the sheriff who hunted down Billy the Kid. Its official name was the Single Action Army® Revolver. It was commonly known around saloons and lawmen's offices as The Peacemaker®. The gun was a Colt .45.
==Oliver Winchester - a Different Type of Firearm Entrepreneur==
[[File:Winchester_1873.jpg|thumbnail|320px|left|Winchester Model 1873]]
Born in Boston in 1810, Oliver Fisher Winchester was a New England contemporary of Samuel Colt but his route to weapons immortality was markedly different. When Winchester left the family farm it was to work in construction. He eventually migrated into the mercantile trade. He manufactured men's shirts and plowed the profits into the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company in New Haven, Connecticut in 1855. As Winchester's talents were strictly on the business side, the work of building firearms was left to men like Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson, who make names of their own in the gun world.
