Colt's Single Action, .45 Caliber Revolver, Manufactured in 1900

Family records indicate that Harrison Schwend found this revolver, just after the turn of the century, somewhere on the Wichita Flats, an area of bottom land that runs between the Big Wichita and Little Wichita Rivers, just north of Henrietta. This was terrain that Harrison often crossed as he made trips by horseback to retrieve prisoners or escort them to the penitentiary in Fort Sill, Indian Territory. It was found loaded with one of the cylinder chambers blown out. It had evidently been through a prairie fire when Harrison discovered it. It is seen above with a replacement cylinder as well as the original one that shows the exploded chamber. The grips are replacements and the finish has been taken down to bare metal.