The Frontier West was nothing if not a place of opportunity. It offered an unlimited number of ways to perish including disease (a big favorite), thirst, starvation, weather, livestock, serpents, ...

Colt revolvers helped shape American history, becoming symbols of self-reliance, exploration, and innovation. From taming the ...

Although we have covered the Colt 1903 Pocket Hammerless before, the gun shown here makes it worth revisiting, because it is a classic example of how condition affects value. But first, a brief ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Like other inventors, Colt was a forward thinker who didn’t just create the products but considered how to get people to buy them. One of the more surprising facts about ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Colt Python was retired by Colt in 2005. The real reason why Colt gave up on such a desirable money maker is unknown, but the high cost of modern labor — a single ...

HARTFORD, CONN. — It’s been a decade since the Wadsworth Atheneum had an exhibit on native son Samuel Colt, an icon who revolutionized the American firearms industry and put Hartford on the world map.

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The Morongo Band of Mission Indians is eyeing investment in or purchase of Colt Holding LLC, the famous New England gun manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy June 14. Tribal leadership is talking ...

A Czech firearms manufacturer buying Colt Holding Co. is delaying plans for a new production site in Arkansas as it focuses on Connecticut, but will not soon increase the West Hartford workforce of ...

In May 1861, Samuel Colt was Hartford’s richest, most famous citizen. A charismatic, driven entrepreneur, Colt possessed inventive genius, boundless imagination and unsurpassed marketing prowess. He ...