Winchester Repeating Arms is bringing back the Winchester Model 73 rifle that was known as “The Gun that Won the West.” The Model 73 features an oil-finished walnut stock, classic blued-steel crescent ...

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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 men and ...

Reporting from Las Vegas — There it was, abandoned for the ages, propped up against a juniper tree in far-eastern Nevada’s Snake Mountains, a Winchester Model 1873 repeating rifle: the gun, as legend ...

Which firearm is “the gun that won the West”? Two weapons hold the main claim to the famous slogan. Each hit the market in 1873. Each was made by a company of monumental influence not only in the gun ...

A weathered, long-hidden Winchester Model 1873, aka “the gun that won the West” (and inspiration for the Anthony Mann film) was found leaning against a tree in Great Basin National Park. Its origins, ...

A Nevada national park suddenly has a 132-year-old rifle mystery. Officials with theGreat Basin National Park in Bakerare baffled by the discovery of a Winchester Model 1873 repeating rifle that was ...

The story of how it got there may never be known, but a rusting 132-year-old Winchester rifle -- known in U.S. lore as "the gun that won the West" -- was recently found resting against a juniper tree ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. A hundred years ago this month, workers at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in New Haven, Connecticut, were hard at ...