Some famous locations and characters originate in fiction such as the television shows Gunsmoke and Bonanza, and Western movies and fiction. For example, while Dodge City, Kansas, the setting of Gunsmoke, was briefly a wide-open town and Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp were lawmen there, Marshall Matt Dillon and the other regular characters of Gunsmoke are fictional characters. Likewise, while Virginia City, Nevada was a significant mining boomtown, the Ponderosa Ranch and the Cartwright family of Bonanza are fictional.
Considerable poetic license has been taken with numerous actual events and characters such as Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid as they have been portrayed in ways which reflect contemporary concerns more than the historical record. Certain books and movies such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Shane, High Noon, and the novel The Virginian stand out. The American Old West has recently experienced a renaissance period in entertainment via the television series Deadwood and the video games Red Dead Revolver and GUN.
A fascinating collection of western guns from notorious outlaws and relentless lawman. These replica non-firing western guns weigh, feel and look just like the expensive originals! These guns have real working action, spin the cylinder, cock the hammer and pull the trigger.