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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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Fires a burst of two bullets with each shot. It is based on the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, but the Ammonomicom entry is a reference to the film "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," and it's user, Clint ...

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 ...

1851: The Great Exhibition opens in London’s Hyde Park. It’s the birth of the world’s fair, a cosmopolitan tradition that has for a century and a half served as a trade show of sorts for human ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point and its museum did not properly account for millions of dollars of gifts during 2012 and 2013, according to a U.S. Department of Defense audit released ...