NMAH The old saying goes like this: God created men equal. Colonel Colt made them equal. Samuel Colt accepted an order for 1,000 revolvers from Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers on this ...

A memorial to Samuel Colt in Hartford ... “God created men,” one adage says. “But Sam Colt made them equal.” (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) Review by Matthew ...

The cynical joke in the American West was that God didn't make men equal, Samuel Colt ... paid to test them. But his first great success came when he placed a large shipment of Colt repeaters ...

but Colt made them equal.” That’s Colt as in Samuel Colt, whose revolver was considered the “great equalizer” in the Wild West. “I think you can say more or less the same about the Queen ...

The difference between them was ... ever made in the United States, and its influence continues to be felt in such guns as the .460 and .500 Smith & Wesson. Designed by Samuel Colt himself ...

It perfected the revolver before the Civil War. One advertising slogan went, "God created man, Sam Colt made them equal." Big words for a big leap for the gun industry. The company also ...

His name was Samuel Colt. At age 11, Samuel was indentured to a farmer. His daily tasks were to work around the farm and to go to school. Here he skipped his Bible studies to read a book called ...

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