"God made man, but Sam Colt made men equal;" a well known quote among modern day firearm fanatics, American historians, and many who saw the heat of battle in the mid to late 1800's. The "marketing maverick" was even known endorsed by memerable characters in history such as Walker, Texas Ranger (Schreier).Okay, not the Cordell Walker most know from the Nineties hit show, but perhaps just as popular in his day, Samuel Walker placed an order for 1,000 of colts state-of-the-art revolvers. (Schreier). So, why were his products in such high demand? How did it effect the Western expansion of the United States? Did he really effect the Industrial Revolution in America? Who was Samuel Colt in the first place? According to Emigh, " Colt proved himself to be a remarkable inventor as well as an industrial genius with a decidedly mixed ethical legacy" (66). This is not hard to believe seing that he once said, "The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other and my arms are the best peacemakers" (Antrim, Taylor, Barnaby…show more content… Boman refered to him as an "indifferent student," while other historians such as Hosely paint almost as a social con, stating that "Colt himself created the basic components of his mythology" which he used to market himself (13). "At sixteen, asked to leave Amherst Academy when his pyrotechnic displays had set fire to the school property, Colt went to sea, serving on a missionary ship—the Corvo—bound for London, Calcutta, and China," Emigh explains (68). "Legend has it that in 1830, the 16-year-old Colt was working aboard a brig in Boston Harbor when he
