Texas Rangers were key in the early success of the revolver. Rangers sought after it because of the volume of fire it provided. Up until then the settlers on the western frontier (bounded by the Comanche) had to face fast firing bows and close combat with single shot muskets. The Colt Patterson revolver was key in securing and expanding westward expansion in Texas and the Plains states.
When I was a boy, I lived a couple of houses down from one of Quanah’s grandsons and his boy.