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Essay Archive - Colt: A Man and His Guns
Colt: A Man and His Guns
The Colt six shooter will always be a legend to many fighting men.
Whether you know it as an accurate, cowboy, Texas Ranger, gun-slinging, out West,
corral gun, or as a little protection, the Peacemaker by Samuel Colt and Samuel
Colt will never be forgotten.
Samuel Colt is known as the inventor of the first revolving firearm. Colt was
born in 1814 to a family were money was not the pressing issue. His father ,
Christopher, was a man that owned his own silk mill in the town where Colt was
born, Hartford, Connecticut. Colt's mother died when he was six and his f....
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