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Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America

byJim Rasenberger

Jim Rasenberger uses Revolver to investigate sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America through a carefully framed historical account. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the wider field of history. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

Scribner

Publication date

May 26, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

448

ISBN

9781501166389