The gun that won the West has returned, and is ready to reassume its historic mantle. Here's a look at the past, present and future of the iconic Model 1873 Winchester lever-action rifle.

The Winchester Model 1873 was more than a rifle model. It became an American symbol. As gun writer Ned Crossman stated in 1920, the 73 was "the rifle that put the name Winchester on the map of the ...

From the Henry Repeating Rifle to the Winchester 1873 and Savage Model 99, these are greatest lever action rifles of all time.

Winchester Repeating Arms is bringing back the Winchester Model 73 rifle that was known as “The Gun that Won the West.” The Model 73 features an oil-finished walnut stock, classic blued-steel ...

Next, it's the iconic Winchester 1873 repeating rifle, made famous by its rapid fire lever-action mechanism. Finally, the competition is decided by the shotgun.

The Winchester rifle’s technological family tree runs through the Henry rifle, used during the Civil War, and on back to 1849, when inventor Walter Hunt patented the Volition Repeating Rifle.

There it was, abandoned for the ages, propped up against a juniper tree in far-eastern Nevada's Snake Mountains, a Winchester Model 1873 repeating rifle: the gun, as legend goes, that won the ...

Winchester’s 1873 repeating rifle built on the success of its Henry and 1866 models, which made it possible for marksmen to reload a bullet just by cocking a lever.

A Nevada national park suddenly has a 132-year-old rifle mystery. Officials with theGreat Basin National Park in Bakerare baffled by the discovery of a Winchester Model 1873 repeating rifle that wa… ...

The famous Winchester rifle glorified in American Westerns may have fired its last shot as a plant where it had been manufactured since 1866 closed its doors last week. One hundred eighty-six ...

According to Morgan, Utah-based Winchester Repeating Arms, 720,610 of the rifles were manufactured between 1873 and 1916. In 1882 alone, more than 25,000 of the 1873 models were made.