The role of a small pistol in the history of the American West

It's about small firearms. It is also called a small gun. This is the Deringer pistol. It was he who was used by the actor sympathizing with southerners, John Wilks Booth in the murder in 1865 of President Abraham Lincoln.

If you watched American films telling about the history of America, you probably saw what it looks like. Diring is like a toy weapon, but he is extremely dangerous. Deering was for many years the most popular weapon. In the mid-1800s, it was perfected by the Philadelphia gunsmith Henry Diringer. Deringer produced a variety of weapons, which were needed by the inhabitants of Western America at the beginning of the XIX century. His whole life, his name and reputation were associated with this little weapon.

This little gun was a very convenient deadly weapon. As a protective weapon, it was convenient to carry it with him, he did not take up much space. The accuracy of the shots was excellent. The weapons were so well made that other weapons manufacturers began to create similar or imitated the original, creating a whole group of varieties of pistols.

Therefore, the deringer was an excellent choice for Booth, when he shot a Lincoln shot and jumped from the balcony onto the stage. He did not take Lincoln's place in American history, he put his name there like a president's murderer.

This case tells how, as a result of a shot from a small pistol, American history was changed, namely the history of the American West. These changes were the result of Lincoln's tragic death. After the end of the Civil War, according to many, it was Lincoln's sudden death that caused a vengeful and overly violent federal policy response to the southern states in the decade after the war.

Such a tough, vindictive and repressive policy has made changes in the lives of many families of southerners. It became the impetus to the fact that many families of southerners joined the migration to the west.

As life has shown, such a small firearm can have such a significant impact on history and on the current national culture.