In the discussion of firearms of the fur trade era, handguns are usually given a back seat and are seldom mentioned in any detail. In reality, though, the trappers and traders placed a great value on them. True, while they lack the accuracy, range and power of the longarm, in a desperate situation such as a fight with hostile Indians or the sudden attack of a ferocious beast, the extra firepower a handgun or two might afford made them indispensable to these frontiersmen in the age of single-shot
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