mark twain lived in hartford while writing the adventures of tom sawyer and huckleberry finn. c-span cities to her staff recently visited many sites showcasing the cities history. learn more about hartford all weekend on american history tv. >> it represents a flyover survey of american firearms of the 19th and 20th century. heavy and cold extremities, called prototypes were they are working out the design ideas as one of our principal to worst draws. .e was a hartford native he had an incredible neck for three-dimensional thinking that he applied to firearms technology and was a consummate draftsman. we have a number of examples of his original watercolors, blueprints, if you will, that he drew up to convey to others, especially gunsmiths and mechanics that he hired to help him work metal prototypes of his guns. to raise money for his vision, he had a traveling medicine show. he was known as dr. colt. he would get people high with nitrous oxide and make them fools in front of audiences and raise money that way. he traveled up and down the coast and brought himself in contact

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