JACKI LYDEN, host: Pancho Villa was both an outlaw and a revolutionary hero - depending on who you ask. But his love of guns, ah, that no one doubts. Two of the Mexican general's firearms were auctioned today in Fredericksburg, Texas, along with a pocket pistol that belonged to Calamity Jane, the frontiers woman whose exploits are legendary - some of them are even true. But it was Pancho Villa's Remington single action revolver that drew the most attention today.</s>JACKI LYDEN, host: Tom Burks is the former curator of the Texas Ranger Museum, and he managed the auction.</s>Mr. TOM BURKS (Former Curator, Texas Ranger Museum): This gun was of an earlier era than Pancho Villa's military or revolutionary career. And it was given to him to commemorate his capture of the Mexican state of Chihuahua in 1914 probably by an old comrade since he knew Pancho Villa's real name which was Doroteo Arango. That name is engraved on the side of the barrel.</s>JACKI LYDEN, host: Now, if the bidders today were hoping for a good, blood-and-guts story to go along with the piece, Tom Burks was there to throw some agua fria on the theory.</s>Mr. TOM BURKS (Former Curator, Texas Ranger Museum): It's a very flashy gun, but being that it was a single action and I doubt if Pancho Villa ever carried it in battle because that's a revolver that you have to cut the hammer back before each shot, you can see the inconvenience of that.</s>JACKI LYDEN, host: Even if it never fired a single shot, it's still a little piece of history. The revolver sold this afternoon for 18,000 buckaroos.
Two of the guns owned by Mexican revolutionary general Pancho Villa are put up for auction in Texas. One was believed to be a gift commemorating Villa's capture of the Mexican state of Chihuahua in 1914. The other was dropped during a horseback shootout along the Rio Grande. Auction manager Tom Burks talks about the day's featured items.