The Winchester : The Gun That Built an American Dynasty
By Ammoland
USA – -(Ammoland.com)-“Who knew that the maker of the ‘gun that won the West,’ the Winchester ’73, was a New Englander who began his career manufacturing shirts? The extraordinary life of Oliver Winchester and his company – and its rapid rise and slow and tragic fall into modern obscurity – is told gallantly and with great precision by a distant descendant, the noted BBC correspondent Laura Trevelyan. From Little Bighorn to the Winchester Mystery House – it is all there, a series of American icons sturdily described by a writer who, because of her ancestry, knows the story far better than most and tells it better than all.” ~ Simon Winchester, author of Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
The Winchester: The Gun That Built an American Dynasty is a fascinating story of the family behind the firearm, as told by a descendant
It is impossible to tell the story of America’s westward expansion without underscoring the importance of the Winchester, the “Gun That Won the West.” In The Winchester: The Gun That Built an American Dynasty (Yale University Press; publication month September 2016; $28), Laura Trevelyan, a …Read the Rest
Source:: AmmoLand
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