But there is no doubt that the one gun that has defined Colt for some 144 years is the Model 1873 Single Action Army (SAA) revolver, a.k.a Model P or Peacemaker.

In July 1873, the Army adopted the Colt and ordered 8,000 revolvers, along with a substantial run of 3,000 Smith & Wesson Model 3s, to replace its obsolete Colt 1860 Army Percussion revolvers.

First introduced in 1873, the Colt Single Action Army has officially been around for 150 years.In that time, it has become one of the iconic revolvers of the late 19th century, and it remains one ...

The pistol you have is a Colt single action Army revolver. It was first produced starting in 1873, and actually a production went all the way through just before the second world war. GUEST: Oh, okay.

In production since 1873, ... According to Colt records, this old Single Action Army started life as a .45 shipped to A. Baldwin & Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, in October, 1900.

The popularity of the Single Action Army in postwar westerns caused Colt to bring the revolver back in 1955, selling it for $125 each. Older nineteenth century Model 1873s and Peacemakers are ...

The popularity of the Single Action Army in postwar westerns caused Colt to bring the revolver back in 1955, selling it for $125 each. Older nineteenth-century Model 1873s and Peacemakers are ...

Colt pistols even armed both sides of the Crimean War. The culminating design for the company was the Colt Model 1873 Single Action Army, released after the Civil War.

Profiles in History, which conducted the auction, had expected the working firearm to fetch over $60,000. The Colt .45 Model 1873 single-action revolver with distinctive stag horn grip was ...

Samuel Colt and his revolvers remain world famous, but for many people today the Colt name evokes images of the Single-Action Army, first issued in 1873 and immortalized as “the Peacemaker.” ...

Model P, 1873 Colt Single Action Army. Bat Masterson’s custom Colt Single Action Army revolver. Rock Island Auction Company. With the adaptation of this icon, ...

Today, the websites of the two successor Colt companies, both based in West Hartford, claim that the 1873-model single-action revolver “became widely known as ‘the gun that won the West.”‘ ...