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Did The “Buntline Special” Gun Really Exist?

by | Mar 9, 2017 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

Did the “Buntline Special” gun really exist? Ralph G. Swanson Prescott, Arizona Western historians disagree over whether Wyatt Earp ever carried a long-barrel pistol. All we know for sure is that Stuart Lake coined the phrase in 1931’s Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. The late Joe Rosa told me: “When I visited Colt in


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