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Author Hosley, William N.

Title Colt : the making of an American legend / William Hosley.

Publication Info. Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description 1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Note "Published in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-254).
Summary This book recounts the story of gun manufacturer Samuel Colt and his wife, Elizabeth, who together turned a company into an empire and a name into a legend. It is a tale of two lives caught up in profound social and economic change, of a great fortune amassed and expended, of the rise of a new industry, and the transformation of an American city. Beginning with an account of Sam Colt's early failures as both inventor and businessman, William Hosley traces the development in the pre-Civil War years of the notorious Colt revolver - "The Gun That Won the West"--Into the first truly global manufacturing export in U.S. history. At their peak, Colt armories in Hartford and London produced as many as 50,000 guns a year - part of a thriving, technologically advanced arms industry that made the Connecticut River Valley the "Silicon Valley" of the Victorian Age. Although Sam became an international celebrity and symbol of American enterprise, it was Elizabeth who made sure the Colt legacy would endure. Following her husband's premature death in 1862 and the subsequent destruction of the Hartford armory by fire, she rebuilt the factory and launched a forty-year campaign of civic memorialization. A patron of the arts, she endowed parks, museums, public statuary, and other memorials that glorified her family and earned her the status of "first lady" of Connecticut.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Note Print version record.
Subject Colt, Samuel, 1814-1862.
Colt, Samuel, 1814-1862.
Colt, Samuel, 1814-1862. (OCoLC)fst00011182
Gunsmiths -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Biography.
Colt revolver -- History.
Hartford (Conn.) -- History.
HOUSE & HOME -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
Colt revolver. (OCoLC)fst00868807
Gunsmiths. (OCoLC)fst00949446
Connecticut -- Hartford. (OCoLC)fst01207441
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Hosley, William N. Colt. Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1996 1558490426 (DLC) 96024139 (OCoLC)34951581
ISBN 058523549X (electronic bk.)
9780585235493 (electronic bk.)
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