Description
A fascinating history of the circle of relatives at the back of the preferred firearm that changed The us and the world
Arguably the world’s most famous firearm, the Winchester Repeating Rifle was once sought after by a cast of characters ranging from the settlers of the American West to the Ottoman Empire’s Army. Laura Trevelyan, a descendant of the Winchester circle of relatives, offers an engrossing personal history of the colorful New England clan chargeable for the creation and manufacture of the “Gun that Won the West.” Trevelyan chronicles the upward push and fortunes of a great American arms dynasty, from Oliver Winchester’s involvement with the Volcanic Arms Company in 1855 through the turbulent decades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She explores the evolution of an iconic, paradigm-changing weapon that has turn into part of American culture; a longtime favorite of collectors and gun enthusiasts that has been celebrated in fiction, glorified in Hollywood, and applauded in endorsements from the likes of Annie Oakley, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, and Native American tribesmen who referred to as it “the spirit gun.”