Historedia
Episode 2 of 2

Order for 1,000 Revolvers

When
January 4, 1847
Where
New York City (meeting during Walker's trip there)
Part of
Samuel Colt sells his first revolvers to the U.S. government

Captain Samuel Walker, seeking revolvers for the Texas Rangers in the Mexican–American War, met Samuel Colt in a gunsmith's shop on January 4, 1847, and ordered 1,000 revolvers.

Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers had seen Colt revolvers used effectively when his 15-man unit defeated a larger force of 70 Comanches in Texas. Wanting to order Colt revolvers for the Rangers in the Mexican–American War, he traveled to New York City in search of Colt. On January 4, 1847, he met Colt in a gunsmith's shop and ordered 1,000 revolvers. The passages place the meeting in a gunsmith's shop during Walker's New York trip; they do not name the shop or state the meeting site beyond that context.

Sources

  1. Samuel Colt Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-15

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.