American Rifleman

Colt’s Manufacturing: A Classic American Name Lives On

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American Rifleman

Book Review: Seven Serpents—The History of Colt’s Snake Guns

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Hartford Courant

A TALE OF GUNS AND ROSES

In 1849, when Samuel Colt’s factory was running full-tilt on Commerce Street in Hartford, The Courant described it as “a museum of curious machinery” more fascinating than the guns it produced. How ...
insider.si.edu

A history of the Colt revolver, and the other arms made by Colt's patent fire arms manufacturing company from 1836 to 1940, by Charles T. Haven & Frank A. Belden; with a ...

The history.--An outline of the antique and obsolete models of Colt arms and their several variations.--A number of documents contemporaneous to the manufacture of Colt arms, from 1832 to ...
The Providence Journal

Lecture at Bristol’s Linden Place will explore Colt family history

The life of Theodora Dewolf Colt — the strong-willed grande dame of Bristol who turned her family home, Linden Place, into one of the most beautiful mansions in New England — will be the focus of a ...