From: gutsy@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article , firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
   says...   
      
   Hi Gerald,   
      
   Nice of you to reply with your usual factual   
   information.   
      
   >Smith & Wesson or Colt's *decorated* by   
   >Tiffany & Co. for presentation at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair or   
   >various Colts with Tiffany grips.   
      
   I haven't a clue beyond what was written in the   
   intro to the book. In the story it says the entire   
   butt of the gun is solid silver, thereby making   
   it very heavy. In the intro Latham says, "I   
   gave my American knight (the hero in the story) a   
   special gun made by Tiffany. Yes, Tiffany really   
   did make silver six-shooters once upon a time."   
   In the story the gun is said to resemble those   
   made specially for the Chicago Columbian Exhibition   
   of 1892, for Smith and Wesson (not Colt, as I   
   mistakenly said in my first post).   
      
   >the author is married to Leslie Stahl   
      
   I wasn't aware of that. I'd never read anything by   
   him until now. But that explains the cryptic   
   dedication in the front of the book, which reads,   
   "When I invent a new heroine, I'm just reinventing Lesley."   
      
   As for the book having any relationship to   
   authenticity, it's more like "reading" a disaster   
   movie that is written to entertain, which I   
   believe the book does a great job of doing. And   
   while doing so, it does echo the legends of the   
   Texas "old west" in the same sense that many of   
   J. Frank Doby's books do.   
      
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