Nonetheless, the Model 1873 Winchester is an iconic rifle of the American west. The ’73 was the culmination of a 25-year evolution of the lever-action repeating rifle. It began with Walter Hunt ...

And whether or not Pugsley was specifically referring to the Winchester Model 1873, that gun became indelibly linked to the slogan, given its role in the settling of the American frontier and its ...

about it. Buffalo Bill declared it to be “The Boss.” Winchester called it, simply, the New Model of 1873. The rifle came from a dingy brick factory in New Haven, Connecticut, the product of ...

But as the 19th century came to a close and ammunition became increasingly powerful, Winchester’s iconic 1873 lever-action rifle could not withstand the high pressures. That’s when John Moses ...

The Winchester Model 1873 lever-action rifle received international attention after it was found leaning against a juniper tree last November by an archaeologist working in Nevada's Great Basin ...

Great Basin National Park workers found the Winchester Model 1873 propped against a tree in the desert in November. Who knows how many years the rifle stood there, after someone left behind the ...

The Winchester model 1873 lever action rifle, popular among American frontiersmen at the end of the 19th century for its reliability, inspired the 1950 James Stewart film "Winchester '73." ...

The gun that won the West' Archaeologists traversing the Great Basin National Park in Nevada came across an interesting find: a 132-year-old Winchester Model 1873 repeating rifle. The Facebook ...