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== Bibliography == {{refbegin|2}} * {{cite book |last = Adler | first = Dennis|title =Colt Single Action: From Patersons to Peacemakers | publisher = Chartwell Books | year = 2008| location = Edison, New Jersey| page = 309| isbn = 978-0-7858-2305-6}} * {{cite book |title= The Great Exhibition of 1851: a nation on display |first= Jeffrey A. |last=Auerbach |publisher= Yale University Press|year=1999 |isbn =978-0-300-08007-0|location= New Haven, Connecticut}} *{{cite book |title =Gun Barons: the weapons that transformed America and the men who invented them |first= John|last= Bainbridge, Jr. |publisher= St. Martin's Press|year=2022 |location= New York |isbn =978-1-250-26686-6}} * {{cite book |title =Armsmear: the home, the arm, and the armory of Samuel Colt: A memorial |first= Henry|last= Barnard |publisher= Alvord Printer|location=New York|year= 1866|author-link=Henry Barnard}} * {{cite book |last= Bowman |first= H. W. |editor= Lucian Cary |title= Antique Guns |series= Abridged Edition Fawcett Book 553 |edition= 4th print |year= 1963 |publisher= Fawcett Publications |location= Greenwich, Connecticut}} * {{cite book |title=American firearms makers: When, where, and what they made from the Colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century|url=https://archive.org/details/americanfirearms00care |url-access=registration |last=Carey |given=Arthur Merwyn|publisher=Crowell|year=1953|location=Springfield, Ohio}} * {{cite journal |last=Dickens|first=Charles|author-link=Charles Dickens|journal=[[Household Words]]|title=Guns and Pistols|page=583|volume=4|year=1854}} * {{cite book |last=Edwards|given=William B.|title=The Story of Colt's Revolver: The Biography of Col. Samuel Colt|location= Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|publisher= Stackpole Company|year= 1953}} * {{cite book|first1=Harold|last1=Evans|first2=Gail|last2=Buckland|first3=David|last3=Lefer|year=2004|title=They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators|publisher=Little, Brown and Co|isbn=0-316-27766-5|location=Boston|url=https://archive.org/details/theymadeamericaf00evan}} * {{cite book |title =The Look of the Old West: A Fully Illustrated Guide |first= William |last=Foster-Harris |publisher =Skyhorse Publishing |year= 2007 |isbn = 978-1-60239-024-9|location=New York }} * {{cite book |title= Why America Has Stopped Inventing |first=Darin |last=Gibby |publisher= Morgan James Publishing|isbn = 978-1-61448-049-5|year=2011|location=Hampton, Virginia}} * {{cite book |title =A History of the Colt Revolver: And the Other Arms Made by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company from 1836 to 1940 |first1= Charles Tower |last1=Haven|first2= Frank A. |last2=Belden |publisher= W. Morrow & company|year= 1940|location=New York }} * {{cite book | last =Hosley | first =William | title = Colt: The Making of an American Legend|url=https://archive.org/details/coltmakingofamer0000hosl |url-access=registration | publisher =University of Massachusetts Press | year = 1996| location =Amherst | isbn = 978-1-55849-042-0 }} * {{cite book|title=Guns in America: a reader|editor=Jan E. Dizard |editor2=Robert M. Muth |editor3=Stephen P. Andrews|last=Hosley|first=William|year=1999|chapter=Guns, Gun Culture, and the Peddling of Dreams|publisher=NYU Press|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/gunsina_xxx_1999_00_9977/page/47 47β85]|isbn=978-0-8147-1879-7|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/gunsina_xxx_1999_00_9977/page/47}} * {{Hounshell1984}} * [[Philip K. Lundeberg|Lundeberg, Philip K.]], ''Samuel Colt's submarine battery: the secret and the enigma''. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974. * {{cite book |title=Samuel Colt: arms, art, and invention |last1=Houze|first1=Herbert G.|first2=Carolyn C. |last2=Cooper|first3=Elizabeth Mankin |last3=Kornhauser| publisher =Yale University Press|year= 2006 |isbn = 978-0-300-11133-0|location= New Haven, Connecticut }} * {{cite book | last1=Klepper | first1=Michael | last2=Gunther | first2=Michael | year=1996 | title=The Wealthy 100: From Benjamin Franklin to Bill Gates β A Ranking of the Richest Americans, Past and Present | publisher=Carol Publishing Group | location=Secaucus, New Jersey | page=xiii | isbn=978-0-8065-1800-8 | oclc=33818143 | url=https://archive.org/details/wealthy100frombe00klep }} * {{cite book |last1= Lehto|first1=Mark R.|year= 2008 |last2=Buck |first2= James R.|title =Introduction to human factors and ergonomics for engineers|publisher= Taylor & Francis|location=New York|isbn= 978-0-8058-5308-7 }} * {{cite book |title=Crisis and political beliefs: the case of the Colt Firearms strike |first=Marc |last=Lendler |publisher=Yale University Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-300-06746-0 |location=New Haven, Connecticut |url=https://archive.org/details/crisispoliticalb0000lend }} * {{cite journal |last=Mann|first=E.B.|journal=[[Field & Stream]]|title=Colt: the man behind the gun|volume=86|issue=4|year=1982}} * {{cite encyclopedia |title = Colt, Samuel | encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of New Jersey |editor=Maxine N. Lurie|first= Marc|last= Mappen | publisher = Rutgers University Press | year = 2004|isbn=978-0-8135-3325-4|location=Piscataway, New Jersey }} * {{Roe1916}} * {{cite book |last=Rohan|first=Jack|title=Yankee Arms Maker: the incredible career of Samuel Colt|edition=1st|year=1935|publisher=Harper and Brothers Publishers|location= New York}} * {{cite book |publisher=F+W Media, Inc|year=2007 |first =Rick |last=Sapp|title=Standard Catalog of Colt Firearms|isbn =978-0-89689-534-8 |location=Iola, Wisconsin}} * {{cite book |title=Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend |first=Harold |last=Schechter |author-link=Harold Schechter |publisher=Random House |location=New York |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-345-47681-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/killercoltmurder00sche_0 }} * {{cite book |title=Power struggles: scientific authority and the creation of practical electricity before Edison|given= Michael B.|last= Schiffer|publisher= MIT Press|year= 2008 |isbn =978-0-262-19582-9 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}} * {{cite book |last1 = Serven | first1 = J.E.| last2= Metzger|first2=C.| title = Paterson Pistols, First of the Famous Repeating Firearms patented and promoted by Samuel Colt| publisher = Foundation Press| year = 1946|location= New York}} * {{cite book |title=Machine Gun: The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War |first=Anthony |last=Smith |chapter=From Whittling to Peacemaking |publisher=Macmillan |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-312-93477-4 |location=New York |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/machinegunstoryo00anth |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/machinegunstoryo00anth }} * {{cite journal |title=The Story of Sam Colt's Equalizer|journal=Popular Science|last=Soule|first=Gardner|page=89|year=1961|volume=179|issue=6}} * {{cite book |title =Industrializing antebellum America: the rise of manufacturing entrepreneurs in the early republic |first1=Barbara M. |last1=Tucker|first2= Kenneth H. |last2=Tucker |publisher =Macmillan|location = New York|year= 2008 |isbn = 978-1-4039-8480-7 }} * {{cite book |title =The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia, Volume 1|first1= Spencer C. |last1=Tucker |first2=Paul G. |last2=Pierpaoli|first3= William E. |last3=White |publisher=ABC-CLIO|year= 2010|isbn =978-1-59884-338-5|location=Santa Barbara, California }} * {{cite book |title= Connecticut in the American Civil War: slavery, sacrifice, and survival||first= Matthew |last=Warshauer |publisher =Wesleyan University Press|year= 2011 |isbn =978-0-8195-7138-0 |location=Middletown, Connecticut}} * {{cite book |title=Colt: An American Legend |first=R. L.|last=Wilson |publisher =Abbeville Press|year=1991 |isbn =978-0-89659-953-6|location = New York }} * {{cite book|title=American State Trials: a Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials which have taken place in the United States from the Beginning of our Government to the Present Day|editor-last=Lawson|editor-first=John Davison|chapter = The Trial of John C. Colt for the Murder of Samuel Adams |publisher=Thomas Law Books|year=1914}} {{refend}}
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