Wild West Guns
Unsurprisingly, the "Wild West" was tamed by the gun.
1860
Colt brought about their New Army Model revolver in 1860 and it quickly proved itself the definitive combat revolver of the t...
1873
The Colt firearms firm certainly hit its stride in the 1800s, helped no doubt by the American Civil War and goings on along t...
1847
Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker (1817-1847) served as a Texas Ranger and within the US military through the violent wars in th...
1860
Many firearms manufacturers of the late 1800s were overshadowed by the likes of Colt and Remington but James Maslin Cooper ma...
1859
Manhattan Firearms Company was established by a committee of businessmen in 1856 in preparation for the expiration of Colt re...
1864
In 1864, Colt's East Armory erupted into flames which destroyed all but two of its buildings. The event could not have happen...
1867
Christian Sharps initially spent time under the employ of other firearms manufacturers that included John Hall at the fabled ...
1860
Christopher Spencer (1833-1922) proved an inventor at heart and one of his most storied creations became the repeat-fire, lev...
1872
The British Webley Bull Dog pocket revolver was a small, powerful firearm that saw considerable commercial success in a varie...
1866
While the lever-action repeating Henry Rifle of 1860 proved revolutionary in its own right, it still held some limitations wi...
1873
The Model 1873 was one of the early legends of the burgeoning American firearms industry and a model product by the Wincheste...
1876
With the arrival of evermore powerful centerfire cartridges appearing on the firearms front, it was only natural for the Winc...
1892
Beginning in 1883, fabled American gunsmith John Moses Browning lent his talents - through a partnership - to the Winchester ...
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