The Oatman family was traveling alone on the Gila Trail near today’s Gila Bend in 1851 when they were attacked by a band of Western Yavapai Indians. Royce Oatman, his pregnant wife Mary Ann wife and five children were murdered.
After the battle at the Alamo, what happened to all of the weapons belonging to the Texians, the rifles, pistols, etc? Did Davy Crockett actually have "Old Betsy" with him?
Wild Bill Hickok was very likely a good marksman with a handgun, which was something of a rarity on the frontier; he also was supposedly a very adroit man, capable of handling a sidearm with speed and balance.