Well, cool, we'll get along just fine. I don't understand your comment except I guess you carry your revolver in some kind of a Tom Threepersons' holster design. I don't know what "Holstory" says about him but everyone else in America thinks he designed/redesigned the Western-style holster. I have some copyrighted material below that backs me up on that statement.
With apologies to the moderators for the length of the quoted material but it makes no sense if I cut it any shorter.
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Classic Tom Threepersons holsters
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The Wikipedia entry is entirely wrong and I've not (and may never) bothered to correct it. The true story in short (the Holstory telling is better because it has footnotes so that one can return to the source material for verification):
"Tom Three Persons was a Blood Indian born 1889 in Alberta Canada while it was still a Territory. He took his name from his stepfather, a horse rancher; while his birth father was named Fred Pace. In 1912 Tom won the bronc busting category in Calgary Canada and became famous as the first Indian to win at rodeo. He did not ever travel further south into the USA than the northernmost towns of MT.
"In 1916 another man, stating he was Cherokee Indian, entered a rodeo in Arizona claiming to be that winner at Calgary. Certainly their physical attributes matched: same height, same weight, same birth year, same skin color, same hair color, same eye color. These were the things that were tracked in that era for military service including the Blood Indian's draft registration in MT and 'our' Tom's joining the Army there in Arizona in 1916. The latter appears to have been recruited by then-Lt. Patton to be a scout against Pancho Villa.
"In 1920 Tom Threepersons (a single word for the first time in his record) became first a blacksmith and then an El Paso policeman. The legends about him being the Indian who won at Calgary began and the full legend that included Alberta and a man named White who he avenged, appeared in 1923 right after Tom had served with the ATF alongside a now-famed agent named White: J.C. 'Doc' White.
"It was not coincidence that Eugene Cunningham appeared in El Paso as a writer for El Paso Times in 1920 that Tom's legends began to appear in EPT at that very moment. Gene had a very florid style that stands in stark contrast to the matter-of-fact reporting of Tom's LEO work then.
"It is also no coincidence that Tom's new wife, Lorene, was also an EPT contributor and it appears that she and Gene matched up the Blood Indian's backstory to suit the 'new' Tom Threepersons; and all three benefited from the legends (as did a Oren Arnold, who arrived late) because it paid better than LEO work.
"At the end of 1927 Tom was no longer an LEO, and by the beginning of 1928 the original Tom Three Persons had learned of Tom's subterfuge from an article by Cunningham -- in a London magazine, of all places, a copy of which was taken to Three Persons because he was a British citizen in Canada. He thought he was being defamed because the article was about a two-gun mankiller, which he was not.
"The Cherokee Tom's holster (his tribe cannot be proved or disproved; only Lorene's Cherokee blood can be proved, his first wife Susie was not Indian, and his third wife Rose was not Cherokee) appears to have been made in Douglas by a chap who set up there in 1919 after moving around the West as a saddler. It has (I own it) two massive welts inside it, carries low and quite vertically. It appears that still needing money, the Threepersons took the design to Myres in 1929, which is when Tom sold his Triple Lock and his Winchester for $50; not too bad at a time when these were less than $20 each, new.
"The result was a range of five holster designs for Myres' 1931 catalog -- prior to that Sam was not a holster maker of any note -- called 'Tom Threepersons Style Holsters'; his 614 model later made famous by Jelly Bryce and Jerry Campbell of the FBI was based on Tom's own holsters, another model was based on Brill's SAA holster, another on Brill's 1911 model; and two spring shoulder holsters.
"In the 1950s Charlie Askins picked up the old legends that Tom and his wife had appropriated from the Canadian chap (died 1949 after being trampled in a stampede) and they've been repeated verbatim ever since. In 2016 all of Tom's guns resurfaced from their private collections; and so did his holster. The holster held by The Autry was not Tom's, but rather Lone Wolf Gonzaullas' Myres.
"Does it matter? Did Tom really design the Threepersons holster? Yes, with the caveat that he was a lawman not a leatherworker; and his proven holster choice was the basis of the Threepersons styles made by Myres."
An 'early' by Brill's employee Kluge
A 'late' by Brill's successor Rabensburg
