24/7 Insights The movement westward helped expand America to California. Steam engines were able to cut travel time by months. The introduction of the Colt revolver helped settlers protect their ...

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Initially developed as a dedicated sidearm for the U.S. military, the Colt Single Action Army became iconic as one of the tools that tamed the frontier and embodied the spirit of the American West.

Before the Colt Single Action Army, pistols used percussion caps to ignite a powder charge that had to be hand-loaded into each chamber of the revolver's cylinder.

Before his death in 1874 Sharps was awarded a total of fifteen firearms-related patents, including one for the Sharps Derringer, a four-barrel, single-action pistol that utilized a revolving ...

Long before semi-auto handguns stole the hearts of the brave, the blusterous, and the fearful, six-shooters reigned supreme as the finest sidearm available. Wyatt Earp, Bill Hickok, Porter Rockwell, ...

A .44-caliber Colt Army gun is about to be sold through a Midwest auction house with the story that it was involved in an 1874 Wichita killing.

The Colt Single Action Army, or “SAA” revolver, is doubtless the classic sixgun most associated in our folklore with the American West. Introduced in 1873, the basic design remained-with a few ...

The 1874 Travers also ended in a dead heat, but Attila was declared the official winner after a runoff with Acrobat. Fast Falcon, send off at 32-1, was a neck behind the winners in third place.

The Texas Rangers, both past and present are real. And they tend, in this author's opinion, to represent the better parts of Wild West law enforcement.

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