Manly Facial Hair: Manly men have facial hair.Good Colors, Evil Colors: The good guy always wears a white cowboy hat, the bad guy always a black hat.Evil Wears Black: Bad guys wear black hats.Badass Bandolier: Belts that hold bullets, grenades, or just weapons in general are articles of clothing associated with badass characters cowboys are often depicted to wear these.Americans Are Cowboys: Generalizing the stereotypical fashion of the Old West, especially cowboy hats, to the United States as a whole.Train Job: Outlaws board a train to steal its cargo or rob passengers at gunpoint.Settling the Frontier: Moving to new lands, in this case the Western United States, provides new opportunities and dangers.Run for the Border: A criminal tries to escape prosecution or persecution by fleeing the country whether into Mexico or Canada (or vice-versa) or across Union/Confederate lines, needing to cross the border to safety (or arrest someone before they do) comes up fairly often in Westerns.Railroad Plot: Something gets in the way of a big construction project (often a railroad in Westerns) this something must be destroyed to complete the project.a new life, a quest, or an adventure of some sort. Quest to the West: A character has to head west for symbolic or significant purposes, e.g.Protect This House: A horror/thriller plot about intruders breaking into a home and the occupants having to fight them off.The Magnificent Seven Samurai: A helpless community under attack hires heroes (usually seven) to protect them.A Fistful of Rehashes: A character walks into a town with two rival factions, plays them both for suckers, and eliminates them when the fighting weakens them.Clean Up the Town: A new person (or an old inhabitant returning after years away) takes position of responsibility, in this case usually a Sheriff, and makes things better.Cattle Drive: A working cowboy brings his cattle from the ranch to the market.Bank Robbery: Outlaws steal money from a bank, typically by holding the tellers at gunpoint.South of the Border: Stereotypical portrayals of Mexico.The Savage South: The Wild West is often stereotyped to barbaric and threatening, or at least more-so than the East.Outlaw Town: A settlement run by and exclusively inhabited by criminals and outlaws.Kirk's Rock: A distinctive set of striated sandstone slabs, dozens to hundreds of feet tall, sharply-angled and pointed at their tops, that often appear in Westerns.Injun Country: An area where Native Americans, First Nations, or other Indigenous peoples can be found in the heyday of the Wild West, settlers often clash with these peoples during American expansion.The Royal Armouries is fortunate enough to have on loan the Colt that belonged to rancher John Tunstall, whose murder ‘Billy the Kid’ set out to avenge in 1878. ![]() Popular with the military, agents of the law, and with criminals, it was said by a former train robber that ‘a Colt’s forty-five makes all men equal’. Probably the most famous of the Old West guns, the Colt six-shooter became renowned as the ‘gun that won the West’. Remington’s version featured two barrels that lifted up for loading and is featured in reproduction form in ‘Django Unchained’ (2012). Named after gunmaker Henry Deringer, ‘Derringer’ became a generic name for a small, concealable weapon for very close range self-defence, carried in a vest pocket or lady’s muff. A lesser-known weapon of the period, it appeared recently as a plot point in BBC One’s Victorian police drama ‘Ripper Street’. This wasted less propellant gas on firing, making it prized for its accuracy amongst Confederate snipers in the American Civil War. ![]() The British Whitworth rifle resembles the better-known Enfield Pattern 1853, but features hexagonal rifling and was designed to fire a close-fitting, hexagonal bullet. The LeMat appears prominently in 2010’s martial arts/Western mash-up ‘The Warrior’s Way’. This was a lot of firepower when the revolver was introduced in 1856, and it went on to find favour with the Confederate States in the American Civil War. The LeMat was unusual in that its cylinder held nine shots instead of the usual five or six, and because it had an extra shotgun barrel mounted underneath. The 1873 model is the best known, even starring in its own movie: Winchester ’73 (1950). Its mechanism would later inspire the Maxim machine gun. Winchester 1873 Rifleīased on the 1860 Henry Repeating Rifle, the famous Winchester featured a tube magazine with an enormous capacity for the time and a rapid-fire lever action. We thought we’d introduce you to a magnificent seven guns from our collection you may see in the hands of your favourite cowboys and cowgirls. Welcome everybody to the wild, wild west.
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