||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| The Winchester: from Henry to Browning and in war and peace.|By Stone Dog|Is there a more iconic American firearm than the lever-action Winchester? Both the author and I would say "No!" This is the story of the Winchester rifle from Henry to Browning with all the stops in between.
Author Martin Pegler gives us a very good chronicle of the lever-action rifles we al|About the Author|Martin Pegler has a BA Hons in Medieval and Modern History and an MA in Museum Studies, both from University College, London, and was for many years the Senior Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. Martin has established The
Winchester Lever-Action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West. Introduced shortly after the American Civil War, the very first Winchester, the M1866, would go on to see military service as far afield as Bulgaria, but it was in the hands of civilians that it would become known as 'The gun that won the west.' Offering a lethal combination of portability, ruggedness and ammunition interchangeability with pistol sidearms, the Winchesters...
