Buffalo Bill Gun

The Buffalo Bill Gun was one of the first toys made by the Milton Bradley Company.

[1] The strenuous life, so widely favored as the century drew to its close, was reflected in many games that Americans played at home.

[1] The Buffalo Bill Gun was the most popular toy the company had produced to date.

The American Bookseller called it "a wonderful demand for the 'Buffalo Bill' gun," and said, "The beauty of the gun is that it will shoot accurately almost any kind of missile: arrow, heavy shot, marbles, pebbles, beans, and, as was discovered last Fourth of July, cannon torpedoes.

The popularity of the toy led to the production of inexpensive competitors; to compete with the knockoffs, Milton Bradley produced its own "cheap gun", the Springfield.