<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Colt" id="mwlw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Samuel Colt">Samuel Colt</a> obtains his first contract for the sale of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver" id="mwmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Revolver">revolver</a> pistols to the United States government.<sup about="#mwt98" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_6#cite_note-18" id="mwmQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwmg">[18]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"><cite about="#mwt95" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFRussell1980"><a href="./Carl_Parcher_Russell" id="mwCRY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Carl Parcher Russell">Russell, Carl Parcher</a> (1 January 1980). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=BJRJZZIxrmkC&amp;pg=PA217" id="mwCRc" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCRg">Guns on the Early Frontiers: A History of Firearms from Colonial Times Through the Years of the Western Fur Trade</i></a>. U of Nebraska Press. p.<span id="mwCRk" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>217. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCRo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCRs" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/0-8032-8903-0" id="mwCRw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-8032-8903-0"><bdi id="mwCR0">0-8032-8903-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt95" class="Z3988" id="mwCR4" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Guns+on+the+Early+Frontiers%3A+A+History+of+Firearms+from+Colonial+Times+Through+the+Years+of+the+Western+Fur+Trade&amp;rft.pages=217&amp;rft.pub=U+of+Nebraska+Press&amp;rft.date=1980-01-01&amp;rft.isbn=0-8032-8903-0&amp;rft.aulast=Russell&amp;rft.aufirst=Carl+Parcher&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DBJRJZZIxrmkC%26pg%3DPA217&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+6"></span></span>