“God created men; Col. Colt made them equal.” So goes the oft-repeated quote about Col. Samuel Colt and his legendary firearms. Yet Col. Colt made more than the weapons that became the great “Equalizers.” This inventive manufacturing genius not only produced some of the world’s most revolutionary revolvers in his time—an era that was crucial in the development and expansion of this country—his factory also turned out some of the most practical tools that became key to the settl
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