George Armstrong Custer wore a Stetson hat at The Battle of Little Big Horn.
He would have been better off stocking up on Winchester 73 repeaters. It seems the Indians at his Last Stand had those but his troops had old-fashioned carbines. Better at long range but no match for rapid fire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3FdrbfvEPI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3FdrbfvEPI I'm a Brit so Yanks fascination with guns bemuses me. But those old cowboy film guns - the Winchester rifle and the Colt revolvers - have an appealing style. They're so simple, but so perfect. They really are beautiful. I find, say, a Schmeisser submachine gun, or modern weapons, utterly obscene. I mean really and truly nauseating. They are killing devices. But the simplicity and elegance of those frontier weapons. Wow! Probably just the subliminal appeal of modern entertainment!
