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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, ...

Today Colt’s Manufacturing Company, LLC is a subsidiary of the Czech holding company Česká zbrojovka Group (CZ), but it was the company that truly built the American firearms industry. Its success ...

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 ...

When Colt brought back the King Cobra, everyone expected a revival of one of the company’s great revolvers—tight ...

Firearm aficionados should set their sights on the Denver-based Morphy Auctions Extraordinary Firearms Auction on Nov. 17 and 18. “The November auction is one of the best offerings of high-end ...

On the warm afternoon of June 8, 1844, an armed patrol of 15 Texas Rangers was traveling through the Hill Country of south central Texas when it came under attack by 75 Comanche warriors. Until this ...

"A sweeping, definitive biography of Samuel Colt--the inventor of the legendary Colt revolver (a.k.a. six-shooter)--which changed the US forever, triggering the industrial revolution and the ...

After receiving a patent in England in 1835, American inventor and industrialist Samuel Colt was granted US patent 9430X for a “revolving gun” on February 25, 1836. The Colt revolver had a revolving ...