At the dawn of the age of automatic pistols, young Lt. George S. Patton relied on reverse technology when he used his famed ivory-stocked, 1873 model Colt in a shoot-out with Capt. Julio Cardenas and two of his fellow Villistas. (Patton used the same Peacemaker during WWII.) Although this fight was a legitimate military encounter, it had all the earmarks of a Wild West gunfight. The History Channel’s Wild West Tech Producer/Director Martin Kent was so taken with this incident that he inclu
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