As part of an international Winchester marketing campaign, he penned this immortal headline: “The Gun ... firing. But all that was about to change with the advent of the Winchester New Model of ...

Nonetheless, the Model 1873 Winchester ... rifle. The 1866 model featured a bronze alloy frame, an improved magazine and a walnut fore-end to protect the shooter’s off-hand from heat during firing.

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 ...

Park officials said the rifle, identified by an engraving on its side as a Model 1873 Winchester manufactured in 1882, was found blending in with the colors of a juniper tree in the park and seems ...

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 ...

SWEETWATER COUNTY — The Sweetwater County Historical Museum added a rifle to its exhibit gallery known by many as “The Gun That Won The West,” a Model 1873 Winchester lever-action.