Author: Houze, Herbert (and) Carolyn Cooper (and) Elizabeth Komhauser
Title: Samuel Colt: Arms, Art, and Invention
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006. Hardcover. A navy fabric casebound book with the title in silver down the spine. There is a glossy, color-illustrated dust jacket with the title printed in black down a white spine. The free and pasted end pages a a heavy gray paper. Pages: (4), vi-ix, 1-260. Contains 327 color illustrations. Contents are as follows: Foreword: Willard Holmes -- Herbert G. Houze -- Acknowledgments: Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser -- A Connecticut Yankee courts the world / Carolyn C. Cooper -- Samuel Colt: arms, art, and invention / Herbert G. Houze -- Note for the reader -- Samuel Colt: arms, art and invention -- The development of firearms up to Samuel Colt's time -- From navigator to arms designer, 1814-1836 -- The Paterson era, 1836-1841 -- Samuel Colt in New York, 1841-1846 -- Hartford and success -- The emergence of the metallic cartridge era -- Counterfeits, infringements, and competitors -- The memorial collection assembled by Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt -- Samuel Colt's South Meadows armory -- Samuel Colt and the world -- Epilogue: no new thing under the sun -- George Catlin and the Colt Firearms Series / Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser -- Appendix One: Colt Family Tree -- Appendix Two: Patents, patent reissues, and caveats issued to Samuel Colt and Elisha K. Root. VG+/VG+ .

Keywords: History ; Samuel Colt ; ;


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