"the revolver had become so diffused as to be an indispensable and popular article of the personal effects of the individual."

   "Advantageous markets for arms on this principle were yet further opened in California, the Texan and Mexican wars; and varieties modifications of these arms, of rival merit, were therefore produced as a consequence by others in the United States. The breech-loading and revolving arms of Hall, Sharp, Leavitt, Warner, Colt, Perry, and a host of others, contended for precedence from 1836 to 1848; and, favoured moreover by certain social circumstances which distinguish life in the Union, the revolver had become so diffused as to be an indispensable and popular article of the personal effects of the individual."--John Deane, [Deanes' Manual of the History and Science of Fire-arms, 1858.]