The name and technique come from the gunleather used by the cavalry of both the United States Army and the Confederate States Army, during the Civil War.
He still carried a firearm, but had traded his low-slung "gunfighter" rig for a Single Action Army-type revolver with a short barrel, carried in a Cavalry draw holster.
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