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Colt revolvers helped shape American history, becoming symbols of self-reliance, exploration, and innovation. From taming the frontier to defining modern handgun design, these revolvers earned their ...

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The Frontier West was nothing if not a place of opportunity. It offered an unlimited number of ways to perish including disease (a big favorite), thirst, starvation, weather, livestock, serpents, ...

Prologue: A taste for distasteful truths -- Before the mast (1814-33). Lord's Hill ; His name was Colt ; The voyage of the Corvo ; The nitrous oxide tour -- Exertions and enterprise (1833-38). The ...