Sleek scabbards housed frontiersmen’s six-guns from the days of the California Gold Rush through the closing of the frontier. For centuries, pistol holsters were strictly utilitarian in design, often consisting of little more than a leather pouch for housing the gun. By 1850, many holsters produced for the new caplock revolvers, such as Col. Colt’s offerings of the da


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