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Colonel Carrington (Roy Gordon) and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sioux Indian territory of Wyoming during the 1880s. The Colonel recruits former cavalry soldiers turned frontier scouts Jim Bridger (Dennis Morgan) and "Dakota Jack" Gaines (Richard Denning), now running a Wild West show, to head the fort building.
Winchester rifle is a comprehensive term describing a series of lever action repeating rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.Developed from the 1860 Henry rifle, Winchester rifles were among the earliest repeaters.
He was presented with two sets of engraved revolvers, one of these sets he used later in the 1976 film The Shootist. Audie Murphy and Mel Torme were other endorsers. [2] A specially made Great Western revolver was built for Don Knotts in the Disney movie, The Shakiest Gun in the West; this revolver would comically fall apart when cocking the ...
2 Guns is a 2013 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. [4] It is based on the comic book series of the same name created by Steven Grant and Mateus Santolouco, published in 2007 by Boom!
Film historian Arthur Lyons stated that the plot is based on the murder of silent movie director William Desmond Taylor. [2] While Hollywood Story reaches a fictional conclusion, it closely follows the circumstances of the real-life event. On the film's release, Universal promoted the appearances in it of several once-famous silent screen ...
How the West Was Won is a 1962 American epic Western film directed by Henry Hathaway (who directed three out of the five chapters involving the same family), John Ford and George Marshall, produced by Bernard Smith, written by James R. Webb, and narrated by Spencer Tracy.
With thousands of rifles in the hands of the average pioneer, the Winchester repeating rifles gained a reputation as "The Gun that Won the West". [ 3 ] Oliver Winchester was also active in politics, serving as a New Haven City Commissioner, Republican Presidential elector in 1864 , and as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1866 to 1867.
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