While Winchester coined the expression the “Gun That Won the West,” most aficionados of American firearm history consider Samuel Colt’s invention the “Handgun that Won the West.” Certainly, western historians […]

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While Winchester coined the expression the “Gun That Won the West,” most aficionados of American firearm history consider Samuel Colt’s invention the “Handgun that Won the West.” Certainly, western historians […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2001 Native American Photography After the End of the Frontier By Nathan Bender, Former Housel Curator, McCracken Research Library After the closing of the […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2010 Stone lintel from the Winchester factory In 1975, the Winchester Arms Collection arrived at the then-named Buffalo Bill Historical Center under […]
Two new raptors have joined seven fellow birds of prey at the Draper Museum Raptor Experience at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. A tiny saw-whet owl named Remington, […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2002 Remington Among the Ute Indians By Peter H. Hassrick, Director Emeritus and Senior Scholar Frederic Remington was nothing if not peripatetic and especially […]
Thank you to all who entered the contest to name our new bald eagle On May 11, 2016, this female bald eagle arrived at the Center of the West to […]