Samuel Colt and his 1851 Navy Revolver. Everyone knows Texas was an independent republic after winning its independence from Mexico, but between 1836 and its annexation by the United States in ...

Sleek, balanced, and deadly accurate, the Colt Navy became one of the most popular revolvers of the 19th century. Its use in the Civil War and on the frontier made it a symbol of American grit ...

The guerrilla's principal weapon was the .36 caliber 1851 Navy Colt revolver. This gun was named for its inventor, Samuel Colt, a native of Hartford, Connecticut, who as a young man designed the ...

Uberti USA’s 1851 Navy Conversion revolver is based on the later Richards-Mason-pattern conversions, which were around while Wild Bill was alive. The loading arm typically found on cap-and-ball ...

Although he owned other guns during his career, Hickok is most noted for packing two ivory handled, nickel plated .36 caliber Colt 1851 Navy revolvers with their backstraps engraved, “J.B ...

The 1851 Navy soon found a ready market. Models exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London that year, alongside Dragoon and Pocket revolvers, were in such demand that Colt later established an ...