Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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. Bridger and Gaines are friendly with Sioux chief Red Cloud ( Robert Bice ) but have reservations about the chief's 2nd in command, Afraid of Horses ...
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.
This model is sometimes known as "the gun that won the West." The rifle's serial number indicates that it was one of 25,000 manufactured in 1882. [6] The park service sent the gun to the Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming for analysis and conservation. A team of researchers took the firearm to a local ...
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.
The Gun That Won the West (1955) - Mrs. Maxine Gaines; The Flight That Disappeared (1961) - Marcia Paxton; The Law and Mr. Jones (1961) TV series - Carla Hayes - ep."The Concert" Hand of Death (1962) - Carol Wilson; Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969) - Countess Townsend; Five Bloody Graves (1969) - Kansas Kelly; Mind Twister (1993) - Agnes
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 hammer. [3] In 1955 Wilson sent unsolicited to President Eisenhower an ornately engraved .38 revolver and a similar model to California Governor Goodwin J. Knight. [4]
Thomas Crossley Johnson (1862–1934) was an American firearms designer. The son of a President of the Yale Safe and Iron Company, Johnson was trained as an industrial engineer and worked for several companies prior to employment with the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1885.
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.