Colt Patent

[Craig Tx]

From the Texas State Historical Association

Colt patents the "gun that won the West"

On this day in 1836, Samuel Colt, of Hartford, Connecticut, patented the Colt revolver. This invention, along with windmills and barbed wire, brought order to the Great Plains. It was eventually produced in numerous models, the most famous being that of 1871. In 1839 the Republic of Texas ordered 180 of the .36 caliber holster models for the Texas Navy. The Texas Rangers gave the Colt revolver its reputation as a weapon ideally suited for mounted combat. Frederick Law Olmsted remarked that "there were probably as many revolvers in Texas as there were males."

Craig

[Craig Tx]

Thanks to Big Smoke for keepin' me honest!

I let a glarin' error slip past me.  I expect what the TSHA person who wrote that meant to say that the most famous of the Colt revolvers was the Model 1873.  It was a bad bit of writin' and I didn't read it carefully enough, or I corrected it in my head as I read it.

Apologies...

Craig

[Bison Horn]

How about them Walkers! Go Rangers!