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.
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