** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** In the mid-19th century—just as in ...

Following Remington's bankruptcy in 1888, a number of the company's unsold Model 1875s were discovered, and it was decided ...

In the early 1870s, Colt’s Manufacturing Company developed a new revolver designed to take advantage of the newly developed metallic cartridge. Previous generation revolvers used the percussion cap ...

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, ...

The gun that blazed the trails of the Western frontier was the famous six-shooter made by Colt’s Patent Firearms Mfg. Co. One hundred and twenty-seven years after its founding, Colt is still capable ...