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The third rarity was a dual-hammered Walsh ten-shot revolver of 1859 vintage. The inventor of this gimmick must have had visions of superseding the Colt sixshooter. There were a few bugs in the design and the gun wasn’t a success, although a few made their way into the holsters of Confederate troopers during the Civil War. Maquire’s example was retrieved on the battlefield of Corrinth in October of ‘62, from the person of a Rebel captain who, as war trophy seekers have remarked throughout history, “no longer had a need for it.”

Dr. B.J. Ochsner was one of the great surgeons of the West and one of its most devoted handgun cranks. His pistol collection was profiled in the December 1916 issue of Outdoor Life. There were pistols of all descriptions, from French duelers to the ultra-modern Luger. Included were two scarce Pope-barreled handguns, a Smith and Wesson .38 and a Stevens. The high point of the collection to the Old West buffs certainly, was the brace of Colt Navies, presented by a former superintendent of the Mesa Verde National Park, and were known to have killed several men on the frontier. A. H. Hardy, Peters exhibition shooter and author of the piece, failed to mention whether the dead men were good guys or bad guys.