S&W’s Model No. 2 revolver was favored by George Armstrong Custer, Cole Younger and James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, who was packing a “Model No. 2 Army” when he was murdered in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. Shown here is a 6-inch-barreled “Old Model Revolver” with the infamous “Dead Man’s Hand” of black aces, eights and the Jack of diamonds, that Hickok was holding when Jack McCall shot him in the back of the h


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