Colt: A Man And His Guns
Colt: A Man and His Guns
The Colt six shooter will always be a legend to many fighting men.
Whether you know it as an accurate, cowboy, Texas Ranger, gun-slinging, out West,
corral gun, or as a little protection, the Peacemaker by Samuel Colt and Samuel
Colt will never be forgotten.
Samuel Colt is known as the inventor of the first revolving firearm. Colt was
born in 1814 to a family were money was not the pressing issue. His father ,
Christopher, was a man that owned his own silk mill in the town where Colt was
born, Hartford, Connecticut. Colt's mother died when he was six and his father's
business started to fail. When Colt Colt was seven, he was fascinated by guns.
He took apart his father's gun in a field and was able to successfully rebuild
it. At the age of ten Colt was an apprentice in his fathers mill, mostly dying
clothes. Science, adventures of an active life, and mechanics were all the
favorite passions of young Colt. The adventures eventually led Colt......
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