Auction also included J.B. Hickok’s Springfield Trapdoor rifle.
From The History Blog
"The gun used by Sheriff Pat Garrett to kill Billy the Kid on July 14th, 1881, sold at auction Friday for $6,030,313. In brisk bidding from around the world, the Colt .44 revolver blew past the pre-sale estimate of $2-3 million to set a new auction sale record for a firearm.
"The six million dollar gun was actually on Billy’s side at first. It belonged to Billy Wilson, one of the Kid’s gang, when Pat Garrett captured the surviving members of the gang at Stinking Springs on December 23rd, 1880. Garrett confiscated Wilson’s Colt and his Winchester rifle and used them in the line of duty. Billy the Kid was brought to trial and sentenced to death on April 13th. Fifteen days later, he escaped from Lincoln County courthouse jail killing two deputies on his way out. Garrett tracked Billy the Kid to the Pete Maxwell ranch in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and shot him to death."
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62109
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