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The originals were never made in .45 Colt, their frames (and cylinders) were simply not long enough.
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True, but Smith did eventually lengthen the cylinder enough for .44-40.
I don't know what they did to the frame.
The .44-40 did not sell well and the .38-40 hardly at all, so they made some long .44 Russian cylinders to use with the Frontier frames.