Say “Old West six-gun” and most folks picture a single-action Colt on a cavalryman’s hip. That image isn’t wrong – but it’s incomplete. The late 1800s were an arms-race of ideas, and double-action (DA ...

With his right hand on his six-shot revolver, Everett Chodos, aka “Speedy James,” lined up next to a gunslinger probably three times his age in familiar cowboy attire with a straw cowboy hat and boots ...