Colt Six-Shooter
COLT SIX-SHOOTER
COLT SIX-SHOOTER. The first practical "revolving pistol" was invented by Samuel Colt and first manufactured in 1836. Its innovations included a cylinder that came in line with the rifled barrel by pulling the hammer back to full cock. The pistol proved its worth during the Seminole Wars and the Texas border conflicts. The first government orders for heavy revolvers of .44 caliber came in January 1847. Many of the 554,283 powder-and-ball revolvers manufactured at Colt's Hartford, Connecticut, factory between 1856 and 1865 were used by both sides during the Civil War. Colt six-shooters, popular with rangers and cattlemen as well as troops, played a prominent part in the conquest and settlement of the West.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Edward, William B. The Story of Colt's Revolver. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1953.
Samuel M. Stone / a. r.
See also Munitions ; Texas Rangers ; West, American .
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Capturing movement.(Unique Forms: The Drawing and Sculpture of Umberto Boccioni)
Magazine article from: Spectator; 1/24/2009; ; 700+ words
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Boccioni: a retrospective. (Umberto Boccioni, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 11/7/1988; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/8/1988; ; 700+ words
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 1/25/2009; 700+ words
; ...Hudson Unique Forms: The Drawings And Sculpture Of Umberto Boccioni Estorick Collection, London Until April 19...everything that is worm-ridden and corroded by time'. Umberto Boccioni was the leading artist of Futurism, perhaps the...
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Capturing movement
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 1/24/2009; ; 700+ words
; Unique Forms: The Drawing and Sculpture of Umberto Boccioni Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Square, N1...small but select show devoted to the leading Futurist Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916). Boccioni is one of those figures...
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ITALIAN FUTURISM'S MOMENT IN ART RECORDED
News Wire article from: United Press International; 4/24/2004; 700+ words
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What the futurelooked like then
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/27/2009; ; 700+ words
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 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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Italian Futurism, Avant-Garde Spasm, Predicted Fascism.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 3/22/2004; 700+ words
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Arts Guide
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 1/24/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...The Drawing and Sculpture of Umberto Boccioni." A small exhibition of 20 paintings...sculpture, that focuses solely on Boccioni (1882-1916), one of the five...outspoken theoretician of Futurism, Boccioni died accidentally during a military...
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Umberto Boccioni
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Boccioni, Umberto
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
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Gino Severini
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...April 7, 1883, in Cortona. In Rome in 1901 he met Umberto Boccioni, and the following year he became acquainted with Giacomo Balla, who had studied in Paris. Severini and Boccioni became Balla's pupils. Thus Severini was acquainted...
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Joseph Stella
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...then went to Paris, where he met Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and a number of the Italian futurists, including Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carr à , and Gino Severini. Stella's enthusiasm for their art was not immediately translated into...
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Giacomo Balla
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...to Rome he enthusiastically imparted his new-found postimpressionist theories to the painters Gino Severini and Umberto Boccioni. The poet F. T. Marinetti converted Balla to futurism. Futurism was a movement with a program of belligerent...
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