Colt Pistol - The western
adventure COLT .45/ABC/1957-60 prominently displayed the colt
pistol as government undercover agent
Christopher Colt (Wayde Preston) and later Sam Colt, Jr.
(Donald May) both posed as weapons salesmen in the
American frontier of the 1880s. Colt.45's purchased from Chris
Colt (for $20) took six month to arrive.
Wayde Preston as Christopher Colt
Theme Song
Lyrics
There was a gun
that won the west.
There was a man among the best.
The fastest gun or man alive.
A lightning bolt when he drew that Colt...45.
He carried the message of law and of order,
Into a wicked land.
With a Colt single action Army revolver
Blazing from either hand.
There was the right, there was the wrong.
The gun was quick, the man was strong.
And peace was made when they arrive,
A lightning bolt when the drew that Colt...45.
Colt .45.
Colt .45.
Colt .45.
Colt. 45.
The Colt .44
was the weapon of choice for Paladin (Richard Boone), a hired
gun who resided at Hotel Carlton, in San Francisco on the
western adventure HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL/CBS/1957-63. His
business card read "Have Gun Will Travel. Wire Paladin, San
Francisco." He sheathed his colt pistol in a black holster
adorned with a figure of a white chess knight. "It's a chess
piece, the most versatile on the board. It can move in eight
different directions, over obstacles, and it's always
unexpected" (Answering a question about the symbol on his
holster).
Hopalong
Cassidy (William Boyd) attired in his all-black cowboy outfit
sported two pearl handled Colt revolvers on the western
adventure HOPALONG CASSIDY/NBC/1949-51; and THE LONE
RANGER/CBS/1949-57 western featured the masked rider of the
plains (Clayton Moore) who used a shiny silver pair of Colt
.45 pistols that shot silver bullets.
TRIVIA NOTE:
The Colt frontier pistol was given the nickname of the
"Peacemaker" and the "Gun That Won the West" because it
quickly settled many difficulties in the early days of the
American West, especially in Texas. The Colt .45 was designed
by Samuel Colt (1814-1862). His revolving breech pistol
patented in England in 1835-36 was one of the standard small
arms of the world in the last half of the 19th century. Colt's
Paterson model was used effectively by the Texas Rangers
during the state's fight for independence from Mexico. In 1855
Colt built the world's largest private armory in Hartford,
Connecticut. The single-action Peacemaker model Army revolver
introduced in 1873 became the most famous sidearm of the West.
