Cowboys with Guns

Title: Cowboys with Guns
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Cowboys with Guns

Cowboys with Guns during the Wild Wild West In the Old West, guns played an important role in the lives of cowboys. There were various kinds of guns that cowboys used. They fell into two categories: hand gun and rifle. The most common handguns were the Derringer and the Colt .45; as for rifles there was the Winchester. Most of the time guns were used for shooting animals for food or calming the cattle. Occasionally, a …showed first 75 words of 511 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 511 total…so that it could use .44 - .40 ammunition. This was so the cowboy would only have to carry one kind of ammunition for his Winchester and Colt. Guns were very useful to the cowboy in the Old West. The different kinds of guns had their part and played it well. Without the gun, the cowboy would have had a pretty tough time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Bibliography Dary, David. “Cowboys.” www.historychannel.com. Access date: 4/1/2001. www.winchester-guns.com. Access date: 4/2/2001.

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