Re: [DL] Re: deadlands-digest.20000806-2

[Ross Coburn <coburn@sympatico.ca>]

At 07:23 PM 8/7/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Nukem said,
>>
>> If you haven't been to this site yet then I HIGHLY recommend it.  There
>are
>> some absolutely BEAUTIFUL pictures of Old Western firearms!!
>>
>> http://www.geocities.com/weirdwest_2000/firearms.html
>
>    Hmm. This, and the original site, have the Paterson 1837 listed and
>shown as a SA pistol. Does anyone know anything about this? Were there two
>Colt Patersons? Or has this site, which seems well-informed and researched,
>just screwed up royally?

The Patterson was Colt's first commercial effort.  It was initially a
pistol (the one shown), single-action, with no trogger guard and a
snap-down trigger, then eventually the rifle was made, of which I am less
conversant, as far as its history goes (I am essentially taking the
Deadlands guys' word for it, and since I was able to find an image of the
revolving rifle, it seems pretty solid).

Perhaps Paterson was the first manufacturing firm or something?