Wild Bill Hickocks colt

[DNICK]

Hi all there was a story in todays paper that states that the town of Deadwood S.D. just purchased Hickocks 1860 Colt, belt,holster letters ect. the interesting thing is the picture of the colt it has been converted to cartrige you can see the ejctor rod on the right side of the barrel so you obviously wouldn't need to remove the cylinder to reload. was this a common conversion? The display wont be in the museum until the end of the month or early Oct. so I can't see it until then.

 

[Rebel]

Supposedly Wild Bill carried a brace of 1851 Navies, not an 1860 Army conversion.

 

[oldmaster]

Everything I've every read orf seen shows or tells of the 51 Navies.

 

[DNICK]

Well the 51 navy was what I had always heard but the picture in the paper is clear and they list it as an 1860 I would like to think they did there reaserch as the price tag was $200,000

 

[DNICK]

the picture is not as clear as in the paper but you can see the colt and read the article at[url] www.rapidcityjournal.com[/url] (not trying to push the paper just show the story)

 

[redwing]

I am sure he owned many guns in his life time. He was in the Civil War, he was a Lawman, he was in his wifes wild west shows. He had left his wife at thier home in Cinn,. Ohio for one last fling on the Frontier. He was going blind from VD which had got into his eyes. He needed help to get around after dark. So his gun fightin days were over when he died.
It is said he was armed with his 51s in his sash when died. Many of his personal items remained with his wife in Ohio until her death.

 

[Smokin6Gun]

DNICK, I'm sure he had an 1860 Richards-Mason Colt conversion in his collection. Have read where he was presented a pair of 1860's by somebody. Although he most certainly carried and used the 1851 Navy revs up till the day he was shot from behind in the head at a poker table in Deadwood S.D.

1860 Richard-Mason Conv.

 

[mec]

the Harper's (weekly?/monthly?) sewed confusion right at the time of the springfield mo shooting. the article showed had him showing up in town with two Navy's but apparing shooting dave tutt with a dragoon. Unknown if the writer knew the difference in the revolvers or not. wild west tech television series has him armed with a cartridge conversion in Deadwood while other sources claim he stuck with c&b. One popular story is that he had two engraved navies given to him by a legislator whom he guided on a hunt. One is in either the Autry, Roy rogers or buffalo bill museum. People have even cast asparigus on that story because Hickock's name is spelled wrong on the pistol.

 

[Wes/Tex]

Hickok is known to have carried or owned a half-stock Hawken rifle, a .32 Smith & Wesson Army No. 2 rimfire,a Colt's Dragoon, 1860 Colt Army .44's, Smith & Wesson Model #3 Armies, a practically new Richards or Richards-Mason conversion, a British Beaumont-Adams .442 double-action percussion revolver, his famous pair of nickled '51 Navies given him by Massachusetts senator Henry Wilson in 1869, a pair of converted navy pistols in .38 rim or center-fire (probably not the presentation pair as once thoughts) and a Hammond .44 Bulldog single shot pistol, taken off his body. All we got to do is figure out in what order and when!!

 

[Lone Carabiner]

An optometrist in St. Louis diagnosed glaucoma, a condition common to folk that spend much time in the sun, maybe he had syphlis also but no record on paper. He had several firearms, nickle plated '51's, .36 c&p among them and other '51 .36 c&p's that he carried in his 'sash'

 

[Dale D]

In a recent issue of OLD WEST GUNS they had an article about Bill's Navies and Conversions.I seem to remember in there that one of Bill's companions on the trip to Deadwood said he had the 1860 conversions with him on the trip.DALE

 

[mec]

"An optometrist in St. Louis diagnosed glaucoma, a condition common to folk that spend much "

I heard it was catarachs related to gonorhhea but have no idea whether it was correct or not.

 

[Lone Carabiner]

That is what I read about his last trip to St.Loius, even had the Dr.s name (forgot) -glaucoma.

 

[Wes/Tex]

-glaucoma.

Wonder if he saw rainbow rings around on-coming headlights like moi? :rotf:

 

[Lone Carabiner]

He may have seen 'em around the stage lights on 'Buffalo Bills' Wild West show- he shot 'em out. :rotf: