Samuel Walker

Samuel Walker

Introduction

Samuel Hamilton Walker is a mythical hero of the conquest (or loss, depending on the point of view) to the west. Sam survived the two great humiliations of the war in Texas. Escaped death at Fort Alamo (just avoiding being there) and then did the unspeakable surviving the famous bean tombola held by General Santa Ana (Anna?), The course of which one prisoner in ten of among a group of escapees would be executed. It definitely saved again and entered into legend.

In fact, Samuel Hamilton Walker mostly due to its renowned industrial revolution. He was one of the greatest craftsmen of the same by way of co-inventor of Walker Colt revolvers among the first to repeat, he met an undeniable popularity (compared to today's iPod) in the country of bravosylibres the middle Century 19. Admittedly, Sam Walker was understood in pogroms and revolvers. Had used good judgment Patterson (one of the first versions of the Colt revolver) in the course of the campaign of extermination that the U.S. government against the villains led Seminole agricultural community, peace and sedentary, who had the unpardonable notion of living in Florida (Walker, 1998, p. iii).

The handsome Sam, a lover of the brawl, then served in most of the conflicts of the time. Became famous, holding the revolver and the manes in the wind, the course of the wars against the Crees, Comanches, Kiowas and the Sioux. Rose through the ranks, and with the title of captain of the Mounted Rifles was to propose to Sam Colt, then almost in ruins, the creation of a revolver that would meet the requirements of an expert in massacres. Both Sam began their business. The Colt Walker was born. Treasury Secretary at the time, Robert J. Walker, Sam introduced our noble President Polk, who had placed the first of many orders of 1000 units of these revolvers. Other family ties apparently Samuel joined the future mayor of New York, William Magear Tweed, Member of the Lodge as he Tammany (a kind of mafia Democrat at the time).

Ironically, in 1847, is dreamy with his revolver, his precious Walker Colt six-shooter, Samuel Hamilton Walker missed a Mexican soldier armed only with spears. The crude iron point of the halberd of wood went through to death in the battlefield, in Huamantla, Mexico. Their descendants will manage more wisely to take advantage of the war it safe from scratches! Samuel Colt did not fail to exploit the glorious death of his partner to extol the virtues (?) Of his revolver. Said to be the weapon that would have enabled the "civilization" to submit to the west. The statue of Samuel Hamilton Walker reigns in the heart of the Texas Rangers Museum, within walking distance of the stay of President George Walker Bush, located in Waco, Texas (Capaccio & Mohan, 1995)

Samuel is a person who has wrote a lot about different types of conflicts prevailing at that time.

Sioux Wars

Sioux Wars ( ...