Episode 4 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Engines of Texas History.

Samuel Colt certainly benefitted from the association of his revolving pistol with the state that most found widespread application for it use. And Texans, by and large, returned the love, coming to believe that "God made man, but Samuel Colt made them equal."  Did the Colt Revolver blaze the trail for Anglo immigration into the Western half of the state? Or did the power imbalance it created violently accelerate a demographic inevitability?

Cover art is available in the Public Domain and online.

Sources:
Rasenberger, Jim. Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter that Changed America (2020).

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