Editing Colt Single Action Army (section)

===Buntline Special===
{{Main|Colt Buntline}}
[[File:Buntline.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Colt Buntline]]
[[Wyatt Earp]] biographer [[Stuart N. Lake]]<ref name="Adler" /> popularized the myth of the Buntline Special. In his highly fictionalized biography, ''Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal'', published in 1931, he wrote that Earp and four other lawmen—[[Bat Masterson]], Bill Tilghman, Charlie Bassett and Neal Brown—were each presented with a customized revolver with a {{convert|12|in|cm|adj=mid|-long}} barrel. However, according to some other accounts, on October 26, 1881, the day of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Earp carried an 1869 .44 caliber Smith & Wesson American Model with an {{convert|8|in|cm|adj=on}} barrel.<ref name=shillingberg>{{cite journal|title=Wyatt Earp and the Buntline Special Myth |url=http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-wyatt-earp-and-the-buntline-special-myth/13255 |first=William B. |last=Shillingberg |date=Summer 1976 |volume=42 |number=2 |pages=113–154 |journal=Kansas Historical Quarterly |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201191828/http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-wyatt-earp-and-the-buntline-special-myth/13255 |archive-date=February 1, 2012 }}</ref>