Colt, an American Legend, Sesquicentennial Edition — The Official History of Colt Firearms from 1836 to the Present, With Over 300 Illustrations in Full Color, by R. L. Wilson, published by Abbeville Press, Publishers, New York, NY, 1986 — NOT the Collector's Edition — with original dust-jacket — 406 pages — illustrated — photographs by Sid Latham — dust-jacket photograph by G. Allan Brown.

Contents:

• Foreword, by George A. Strichman, Chairman of the Board, Colt Industries Inc.
  
• Introduction
• The First Colts - Paterson, New Jersey
• Captain Walker's Dragoon Revolvers
• Pocket and Navy Five- and Six-Shooters
• The Sidehammers of 1855
• The New Models - An Era Ends
• "With Compliments of Colonel Colt"
• Colt's and the Metallic Cartridge
• The Handgun That Won the West
• One Hundred Years of Double-Action Revolvers
• Colt + John M. Browning = Automatics
• Rifles and Shotguns, Muskets and the Gatling
• The Firearms Division of Colt Industries
• Collecting the Colt Heritage
• A New Breed of Collector
  
• Appendix: Serial Number Tables for All Models
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Owner Credits
• Index