The 1851 Colt replaced the three versions of dragoon revolvers that came before the 1851, as it was lighter making easier to carry on a man's belt. It remained in production until 1873 because of its ...

Hours: Tuesdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: $7 for adults, $5 seniors and students, children 5 and under and museum members free. Samuel Colt’s name is synonymous with revolvers – ...

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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, ...

Samuel Colt and his 1851 Navy Revolver. Everyone knows Texas was an independent republic after winning its independence from Mexico, but between 1836 and its annexation by the United States in 1845, ...

There are few names that invoke the American Frontier more than Samuel Colt, but before his revolvers helped win the West, Colt was a struggling gunmaker. On Jan. 4, 1847, Colt won a contract to ...

No era of American history generated so many myths, legends, tall tales, and folklore as the latter half of the 1800s, otherwise known as the ‘Old West’ period. It was a time when people were striking ...