In Kingman, Arizona, an 8-mile section of Route 66 at the western edge of this state may be one of the most scenic — and white-knuckled —drives this country has to offer.

This is a Winchester Model 1873, 22 short caliber. made in 1880s and left in a leaky barn for past 50 years. I got this rifle at a garage sale for $25. I did research and realized I found a very ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the war, the Henry rifle headed to the Western Frontier ... Seven years later, Winchester unveiled Model 1873 that used the same basic toggle-link action as the Henry but was chambered ...

In 1950, an A-list Hollywood western starring Jimmy Stewart ... when it was finally discontinued. (In 2013, Winchester reintroduced the Model 1873 lever gun to much fanfare and still offers ...

Historian Pamela Haag attributes much of the country’s gun culture to that Western theme ... But then gun manufacturers Colt and Winchester started marketing their firearms by appealing to ...

The rifle is a larger framed version of the Model 1873. The gun was chambered ... Collector to Own Sitting Bull’s Winchester? In the early 1900s few men in America were more recognized for their ...

this gun does not. The only concession is it’s chambered for .44-40, the cartridge that replaced the .44 Henry rimfire when the Winchester 1873 rifle came out. That’s because nobody makes .44 rimfire ...

(AP) — A 137-year-old rifle found five ... to the "Forgotten Winchester" at the park visitor center near the Utah border. The weathered Winchester Model 1873 is in a case designed to capture ...