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** 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 1870s, Colt needed a double ...
Colt 1877: The Lightning And The Thunderer Colt’s first DA cartridge revolver arrived in, naturally, 1877. Dealers quickly popularized nicknames: “Lightning” for the .38 Long Colt and “Thunderer” for ...
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, ...