Description
The first troops to receive Colts new 1873 Army revolver in the latter portion of that same year included Custers famed 7th Cavalry. It was these early issue pistols inspected by Orville W. Ainsworth and shipped to Fort Lincoln that Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custers cavalry desperately fought with as they made their last stand on June 25th 1876 at the disastrous Battle of the Little Big Horn known to the Indians as the Fight at the Greasy Grass. Cimarrons 7th Cavalry model in .45 Colt is another
