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

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

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