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Texas and the Paterson Colt

by | Aug 18, 2023 | Art, Guns and Culture, Shooting from the Hip

One hundred and eighty years ago, Samuel Colt’s revolutionary handgun broke trail for the Lone Star State and has been associated with Texas ever since. Armed with 5-shot Paterson “revolving pistols,” the Texas Rangers of the 1840s were considered “as formidable a band of fighters as could be found anywhere in the world at that time.” Word of their many successes fighting Comanche Indians on the Texas frontier and sou


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