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, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Model 1851 Navy was Colt’s most ...

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, ...

For its time and place, the Colt Single Action Army was the total package – powerful, rugged, and so well-shaped that it felt ...

Step into a time when the desert wind carried whispers of ambushes, posse chases, and high noon showdowns. The guns that ...

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 ...

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – A pair of Colt revolvers and a Henry rifle are the antique guns stolen during a weekend burglary at the National Civil War Museum, police said Wednesday. The .44 caliber Colt ...