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The Mouse that Roared

by | May 15, 2010 | Art, Guns and Culture

The power behind the miniature Deringer pistol that took out a U.S. president.
If any single gun had an impact on the history of the West, it was the palm-sized Deringer pistol that John Wilkes Booth used in 1865 to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. The single .41 caliber shot fired from this .44 caliber caplock helped to unleash an unfriendly federal policy on the Southern states, causing great numbers of ex-Confederat


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