This early Indian Wars era Cavalry Model Single Action Army was manufactured in 1874 and was sub-inspected by Orville W. Ainsworth who also was the sub-inspector for the Colts carried by the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Ainsworth's small "A" sub-inspection marks can be found on the barrel, cylinder, trigger guard, and back strap, and remnants of his elongated oval "OWA" cartouche remain on the left side of the grip. The "P" marking is also on the underside of the barrel and side of the cylinder. The barrel has a blade front sight, the one-line address "+ COLT'S PT. F. A. MFG. Co. HARTFORD, CT. U.S.A.+" on top with die breaks in the "o" in Co. and "A" in Hartford, the early bullseye ejector rod button, and the partial serial number "2364" under the ejector housing towards the breech. "2364" is also marked on the side of the cylinder and in the rear mortise of the grip, and the full serial number "12364" is marked on the frame, trigger guard, and back strap. All of the serial numbers match. The left side of the frame has the two-line "PAT. SEPT. 19. 1871/PAT. JULY. 2. 1872" patent marking followed by the "U.S." marking. Though above the serial number ranges associated with the 7th Cavalry, this revolver has been attributed in multiple publications as reportedly captured by a Sioux warrior at the Battle of Little Bighorn. The butt of the revolver is shown in a photograph on page 344 of Keith Cochran's "Colt Peacemaker Encyclopedia Volume 2" and on page 343 it is noted as "probably taken from a Sioux warrior in Canada after the Battle of Little Bighorn by an Indian Agent and Judge and then passed to his son who was a Mountie or a member of the Northwest Mounted Police." Michael Peters also wrote about the revolver in the August 2016 issue of "Relatively Speaking" by the Alberta Genealogical Society in an article titled "From the Little Bighorn to Alberta and Back" in which he stated that Wendell Grangaard examined the revolver and claimed that markings on the gun indicated it had been captured by the Sans Arc Sioux chief Buffalo Hump at the Battle of Little Bighorn. While we find no such identifying markings on the revolver, it does have an interesting history. In included documentation, Peters notes that when he purchased the revolver it included provenance documentation from the Taylor family in Canada. In back-tracking the revolver's provenance, he contacted Karen Taylor who indicated that her father, William Northcote Taylor of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, had won it in a poker game around 1922 at Fort Macleod in Alberta. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police formed by the combination of the Northwest Mounted Police and Dominion Police in 1920. The revolver stayed in the family until 1990. Peters concluded that the revolver had probably been confiscated from a Sioux warrior and kept at Fort Macleod for some time before being released and subsequently acquired by Taylor. He also provided a chronology for the provenance after it left the family and passed through multiple firearms collections. A signed statement from Karen Taylor in 2016 and other documentation are also included for this provenance, such as William N. Taylor's June 15, 1952, firearms registration ticket listing the revolver as "Colt Frontier" serial number 12364 in .45 caliber with a 7 1/2 inch barrel and as previously registered on March 15, 1945. A factory letter indicates no records for this revolver were available. Provenance: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer William Northcote Taylor; Karen Taylor; The Vernon Vossler Collection; The Barry Kolbert Collection; The Wallace W. Francis Jr. Collection; The J. Michael Peters Collection