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Article: Cimarron's Richards-Mason cartridge conversions: the past comes alive again with these replicas of long forgotten Colt revolvers.
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- Guns Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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Pure and simple, Samuel Colt was a firearms genius. From the late 1830s to the early 1860s, the finest sixguns of the period bore the name Colt. And Ol' Sam carried the percussion revolver to its highest evolution.
However, Sam Colt's first excursion into firearms manufacturing with the 1836 Patterson resulted in bankruptcy, and 10 years later, when he resumed production of sixguns with the magnificent Walker, he had to hire Eli Whitney to actually make the big .44s. The Walker set Colt on the right path, and by the time of his death in 1862, he saw his finest creation, the 1860 Army Colt, selling by the thousands to equip the troops of the North during the War ...