{"id":30124,"date":"2026-08-10T15:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/the-sidearm-of-texas-ranger-bass-outlaw\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:15:36","slug":"the-sidearm-of-texas-ranger-bass-outlaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/the-sidearm-of-texas-ranger-bass-outlaw\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sidearm of Texas Ranger Bass Outlaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gh-9b9AyZk4?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Bass Outlaw carried this revolver. Two years later, he was dead.<\/p>\n<p>This Merwin, Hulbert &#038; Co. Pocket Army was confiscated from the Texas Ranger and Deputy U.S. Marshal in El Paso in 1892, with surviving records identifying the revolver by serial number. <\/p>\n<p>Bass Outlaw was killed in a gunfight two years later, setting off a chain of violent confrontations involving John Selman, George Scarborough, John Wesley Hardin, Jeff Milton, and other notorious figures of the Old West.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 \u2013 The Bass Outlaw Revolver <br \/>00:51 \u2013 A Revolutionary Merwin, Hulbert Design<br \/>01:43 \u2013 The Paper Trail to Bass Outlaw<br \/>03:00 \u2013 Texas Ranger Bass Outlaw<br \/>05:00 \u2013 Ranger, Marshal, and Gunfighter<br \/>06:31 \u2013 The Gunfight at El Paso<br \/>08:18 \u2013 Death, Revenge, and Frontier Legends<br \/>09:43 \u2013 A Witness to Wild West History<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#BassOutlaw #TexasRangers #WildWestHistory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bass Outlaw carried this revolver. Two years later, he was dead. This Merwin, Hulbert &#038; Co. Pocket Army was confiscated from the Texas Ranger and Deputy U.S. Marshal in El Paso in 1892, with surviving records identifying the revolver by serial number. Bass Outlaw was killed in a gunfight two years later, setting off a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/the-sidearm-of-texas-ranger-bass-outlaw\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sidearm of Texas Ranger Bass Outlaw<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":30125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}