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The eponymous character, Yancy Derringer, is an adventurer and gambler.He is a former Confederate Army Captain who has returned to New Orleans, Louisiana, [1] in 1868, three years after the end of the American Civil War, during the southern Reconstruction Era.
X Brands plays Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah, ("Wolf Who Stands in Water"), a Pawnee Indian who carries a double-barrel shotgun and throwing knife and is Derringer's (Mahoney's) constant companion and protector. Pahoo's loyalty and overriding concern for Derringer's welfare began after he saved Yancy's life.
In the 1958 Western film Money, Women and Guns, Mahoney played the starring role. The film also starred Kim Hunter. For the 1958 television season, he starred in the outdoor-adventure seriesYancy Derringer for 34 episodes, which aired on CBS. Yancy Derringer was a gentleman adventurer living in New Orleans, Louisiana, after the American Civil War.
The character had no name other than Range Rider. His reputation for fairness, fighting ability, and accuracy with his guns was known far and wide, even by Indians. Mahoney towered over Jones, conveying the idea that Dick West was a youth rather than a full-grown adult. [4]
Yancy Derringer: United States 1958–1959 34 Jock Mahoney, X Brands, Frances Bergen: The Yellow Rose: United States 1983–1984 22 Sam Elliott, David Soul, Edward Albert, Cybill Shepherd, Chuck Connors, Noah Beery Jr., Ken Curtis, Robin Wright, Jane Russell: Not a traditional western, but a serial set in modern-day Texas Yellowstone: United States
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In the Old West, derringers were commonly known as vest-pocket pistols, sleeve guns, and boot pistols. [10] [11] In total, approximately 15,000 Deringer pistols were manufactured. [3] All were single-barrel pistols with back action percussion locks, typically 0.41-inch (10 mm) rifled bores, and walnut stocks.
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