Colt patents the "gun that won the West"

The original Colt Revolver, the Paterson (Wikimedia)

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1836, Samuel Colt, of Hartford, Connecticut, patented the Colt revolver. This invention, along with windmills and barbed wire, brought order to the Great Plains. It was eventually produced in numerous models, the most famous being that of 1871. Continued