The earliest known reference to the Winchester Arms Collection is a letter from Oliver Winchester to R.S. Lawrence in 1871. Oliver Winchester asked to have the Jennings rifle for his collection because it was a link to the development of the Winchester lever action. The Jennings’ rifle original design started as the Hunt Volitional rifle […]
As the great-great-great-granddaughter of Oliver Winchester, author Laura Trevelyan knows a thing or two about the Winchesters—the family and the guns. On Thursday, May 18 at 5:15 p.m., the Buffalo Bill Center of the West hosts Trevelyan for a lecture about her book, The Winchester: The Gun that Built an American Dynasty. The free talk […]
Originally published in Points West magazineWinter 1998 Winchester’s English Shotguns: A Marketing Maneuver with Lasting Influence By Herbert G. Houze While it is now common practice for companies to sell products under their own tradename that are in fact made by other concerns, the phenomenon is generally regarded as being a fairly recent innovation. Or is it? […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2003 A Gentlemen’s Agreement between Samuel Colt and Oliver Winchester? By Robert N. WhiteFormer Curatorial Assistant, Cody Firearms Museum Why did Samuel Colt produce only pistols and Oliver Winchester only rifles? The sacred lore of firearms legend holds that these two giants of the Industrial Revolution, after a tentative foray into […]