Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall/Winter 2018 Design Drawing, Winchester Repeating Shotgun A quick glance through each of the Center’s five museums, and one is sure to agree that art is everywhere: masterworks in the Whitney Western Art Museum, colorful Wild West posters in the Buffalo Bill Museum, masterful taxidermy in the Draper […]
Originally published in Points West magazineFall 2016 To My Winchester By Captain Jack Crawford Sweetheart of mine:For years thy loyalty has proven trueAs is the steel of which thou art created;There are no fickle vanities in you.Thy constancy might well be emulatedBy beauteous sweetheart of a softer mold,Whose eyes gleam love on every new adorerWho […]
What was on a Christmas wish list from the 1920s? Roller skates? A baseball bat? How about a new refrigerator, or tool set? Or a flashlight to spy on Santa? Whatever it was customers didn’t need Sears, or Montgomery Wards, they could find it all under one name, Winchester. […]
There are stories, which pass through hearsay but one can never be sure if the story is completely true. The Buffalo Bill Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West was aware of a story behind a certain Winchester Carbine but not until recently were they able to prove it. The Winchester Carbine originally […]
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 […]
One of the most widely produced rifles in America during World War One was the P14 Enfield and the M1917. Designers based these guns on the same prewar British design and they differed in caliber, .303 and 30’06 respectively. But they, along with the 1903 Springfield became the basis for a series of experimental rifles […]