centre-fire revolver
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20030027-001
- Event --
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Colt Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co.
- Date Made 1874
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - United States of America
- Category Tools and equipment for science and technology
- Sub-category Armament, firearm
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1874/01/01
- Latest 1874/12/31
- Brand Name / Model 1873 Single Action Army
- Inscription 5405; PAT.SEPT.191871 PAT.JULY.2.1872 U.S; 5405; 5405
- Pattern Name Colt
- Materials Steel, Wood
- Branch Cavalry
- Service Component United States Army
- Measurements Height 15.0 cm, Length 31.2 cm, Width 4.8 cm
- Caption Revolver
- Additional Information Sitting Bull, a Lakota Sioux chief, and his followers came to Canada with this weapon after the 1876 battle of the Little Big Horn in the United States. The presence of these armed warriors worried the Canadian government. Officials feared that Canada's western First Peoples would ally with Sitting Bull and use violence to disrupt settlement.