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Samuel Colt: Gunslinger
Although he didn't technically invent the revolver, the original Samuel Colt revolutionized gun manufacturing and supplied firearms to both the North and the South during the Civil War. He was able to parlay his wartime earnings into a massive empire which bears the Colt name to this date. When he died in 1862, he was one of the richest men in America.
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