forty-five-long

Updated: May 8, 2025

"Why, pardner, you must think I have got a light and frivolous disposition," says he, and with that he heaves up the great-grand-uncle of all the six-shooters I ever did see. It made my forty-five-long look like something for a kid to cut its teeth on. "That's the best gun in this country," he went on. "Looks as if it might be," says I. "Has the foundry that cast it gone out of business?

Henry Wallace Phillips - Red Saunders : His Adventures West & East