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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, ...

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A Colt revolver from the 1800s that was stolen from the state museum more than 50 years ago has been located. It is one of dozens of artifacts dating back as far as the French and Indian War that were ...

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 Colt Walker was officially ...

Philip Schreier, “Walker’s Walkers: The Colt Walker Revolvers of Captain Samuel H. Walker, Texas Ranger,” Man at Arms Magazine for the Gun and Sword Collector (Woonsocket, R.I.: Mowbray Publishing, ...

Colt’s Manufacturing Co., whose long and rich history of gun making includes the Colt .45 revolver credited with winning the West, said yesterday that it had filed for bankruptcy court protection. The ...

A Colt .45 revolver once owned by General George S. Patton sold for $75,000 at auction in Los Angeles Thursday. Profiles in History, which conducted the auction, had expected the working firearm to ...

This six-shooter, in the collection of the National Museum of American History, is not the very first Colt six-shooter, but an updated, slightly lighter version Colt produced between 1848 and 1861.

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, ...