Don't you believe a word you read on the 'net!
That 1911 black powder shootin' gun used to belong to a fur trapper who went out west in the 1830's.
Name of Simon Garfunkle. He went out there with Russell, and Liver'eatin Johnson. John Wayne was there too.
It wound up in a museum in Utah.
That's where John Browning saw it and got his inspiration for the .45 Automatic.
There's more to the story, but it's dangerous to talk about it.
dead men tell no tales, so it's said.
The rest is history.