Originally Posted by
DBuck
I think the pistols were a prop of the era. I have a set of three small photos (possibly a PingPong photo), late 1890s/early 1900s, of my grandfather, in one of which he is holding a small revolver, possibly a prop gun, and wearing a goofy cowboy hat. Even with photos taken in the 19th century American West, the subjects are sometimes so festooned with revolvers, rifles, and knives, that one can only conclude it's for show. Not every person went around looking like Wild Bill Hickock. A colleague recently observed that the same decorated & fringed buckskin jacket reappearing in several different portrairs, indicating the jacket belonged to the photographer, not the subjects.
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