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Baby Dragoon, 4-inch barrel.

TEXAS RANGER/INDIAN SCENE

NOTE: Attached loading lever add 15 percent.

STAGECOACH HOLDUP SCENE

Baby Dragoon, 3-inch barrel.

Model 1849 Pocket, blued with ivory grips.

POCKET AND ARMY, NAVY

With success on the U.S. military front based on production of his Walkers and Dragoons, Samuel Colt’s fortunes improved immediately. Thus it was an easy decision to enter the civilian market with a repeating handgun, a smaller version of the massive Walker. The first Pocket models became the hugely popular 1849s and they were so identical to the earlier guns – except in physical size – that they were often referred to as “Colt’s Baby Dragoons.”

The subsequent six-shot Navy revolvers also proved to be popular and the combination sales of these two pistols during the early ‘50s made Colt’s business financially secure. Colt even opened a manufacturing facility in London to complement his Hartford plant and to forestall European imitators and infringements on his patents.