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Updated Nov 11, 2007 - 9:37 pm

FREDERICKSBURG, Texas - Three guns linked to outlaw Pancho Villa - the 1910 Mexican Revolution folk hero sold at auction in Texas for almost $29,000.

Selling for $18,000 was the prize of the auction - Villa's Remington single action revolver that is engraved with his real name, ``Doreteo Arango,'' on one side of the barrel.

A rifle that Villa reportedly dropped in the Rio Grande during a skirmish with opposition forces sold for $7,500, and a pistol owned by Villa's bodyguard was sold for about $3,450.

Besides the guns, a sword belonging to Villa that was made in Spain sold for $7,500.

Also, a gun that once belonged to ``Calamity Jane'' sold at auction for $11,000.

The pocket pistol comes in a leather case and bears the moniker ``Martha Jane Cannary,'' the frontierswoman's real name.

The piece was among some 1,000 Old West items.