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MT: Historian drubs notions of guns and the frontier
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The weapons' names alone conjure the images of the old West: Springfield, Winchester, Henry, Spencer, Marlin, Remington.
Several of them, especially the 1873 Winchester, vie for the title of “the gun that won the West,” retired Army Col. Bob Edwards told a standing-room crowd at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center on Saturday.
But he turned that statement upside down, because winning implies losing, too. |
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