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December 16, 2018

A Winchester Christmas List: Winchester Stores and Merchandise in the 1920s

What was on a Christmas wish list from the 1920s? Roller skates? A baseball bat? How about a new refrigerator, or tool…

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Japanese-American women walk to their barracks at Heart Mountain Relocation Center. MS 89 Jack Richard Photograph Collection, McCracken Research Library. PN.89.111.21238.3 (detail)
December 14, 2018

The War at Home: Women in the Workforce and World War II in Wyoming

War changes the landscape and people, whether on the frontlines or Homefront. World War II not only tested the millions of American…

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M1 Carbine manufactured at Winchester Repeating Arms Co. MS 20 Winchester Repeating Arms Company Archives Collection. P.20.0955
December 10, 2018

Winchester Goes to War: The M1 Carbine

The years following World War I were not kind to the Winchester Repeating Arms, Co. The loans taken out during the war…

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December 6, 2018

Pearl Harbor Attacked! United States Declares War on Japan!

December 7, 1941, in the early morning hours aboard Ford Island, Hawaii, sailors and Marines stood at morning muster when the buzz…

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November 12, 2018

The Yanks Are Coming: The Great War and Winchester Repeating Arms

The eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, for a century now we have worn poppies, lighted lanterns, and…

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