Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six Shooter that Changed America

[doublesharp]

I'll go with hard work! And a saa to keep things equal, a Henry in the scabbard is good insurance, too. Load on Sunday and shoot all week.

 

[Kurusu]

I'll go with hard work! And a saa to keep things equal, a Henry in the scabbard is good insurance, too. Load on Sunday and shoot all week.

I think most of those "hard working people" had to make do with just a shotgun.

All those heavily armed folks that made America did it mostly on the silverscreen.

"This is the West Sir. When the legend becomes fact print the legend"

 

[flagman1776]

Yeah, and Sam Colt's patent on his revolver called it a pistol!

Nobody said it wasn't but it was not the 5 shot that changed America. Just sayin'.

I have been a student of history and the horse soldier for many years. It was Colt's light 5 shooter in the hands of the Texas Rangers that brought Colt back from bankruptcy and proved the value of the revolver. I respectfully disagree that it was the 6 shooter that changed America.

 

[Kurusu]

Yeah, and Sam Colt's patent on his revolver called it a pistol!

But it is a pistol. A revolving pistol.

 

[LCC]

Check the 1841 Battle of Bandera Pass.

Leave it to the Texas Rangers, toughest pistoleros that ever mounted a horse...

 

[Onomea]

Leave it to the Texas Rangers, toughest pistoleros that ever mounted a horse...

They was revolvereros!

 

[ISCS Yoda]

I think most of those "hard working people" had to make do with just a shotgun.

All those heavily armed folks that made America did it mostly on the silverscreen.

"This is the West Sir. When the legend becomes fact print the legend"

One of my favorite quotes. Great movie, too!

But I disagree with the overall concept - the "hard working" folks might have done it with shotguns but, without even taking sides because there are sides to be taken, after the Civil War there was another unfortunate "war". Two actually, if you think about it.. Both were won by revolvers and lever action rifles. Not just hard work and shotguns.

One of those "wars" is a very sad story.

The other is as modern as yesterday's news.

I'll leave it at that.

 

[ggibson511960]

Jack Hays & Walker Creek

There is a very good narrative of Jack Hays' Texas Ranger Company 1844 battle at Walker Creek north of San Antonio, in Robert M. Utley's book "Lone Star Justice, the First Century of the Texas Rangers." Hays' 14 Rangers had Paterson Colts ordered by Sam Houston for the disbanded Texas Navy. In a series of mounted and dismounted skirmishes that lasted several hours over several miles, Hays' surrounded 14 men killed or wounded 60 of the 70 man Comanche raiding party, their best warriors, the "Lords of the Plains", with .36 cal. Patersons, ballistically inferior to a pocket .380 ACP. Then along came the .44 Walkers and Dragoons, game changers that foreshadowed firearms development for the next century.