Winchester’s ‘One of One Thousand’ Seemed Like a Great Ad Campaign

But it made the standard rifles look bad to potential buyers. By the mid-1870s Oliver Winchester’s newfangled lever action repeating rifles—the Henry and Models 1866 and 1873— were well on their way to earning Winchester the advertising motto “The Gun That Won the West.” Even so, Winchester aggressively pursued a heavy advertising campaign to keep …

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