All us kids boys and girls wanted a “Buttline Special” cap-gun.
That’s “Buntline Special” named for the dime novelist Ned Buntline who commissioned Colt’s Patent Firearms to make several of the 12” barrel length Peacemakers, which he presented with great show to several of the West’s most celebrated sheriffs, of whom Wyatt Earp was the best known.
Impractical as a quickdraw handgun (lawmen preferred the 3” Sheriff’s Model or the 4 5/8th” standard Peacemaker), the Buntline Special still acquired an iconic status all its own.
Anyway, Hugh O’Brian will be missed.