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Centennial Winchester Sells High

by | Nov 1, 2008 | Art, Guns and Culture

Rock Island sets an auction record for the Winchester Model 1876.
Before he charged San Juan Hill with his Rough Riders or became the 26th president of the United States, a 22-year-old Theodore Roosevelt ordered his first Winchester. He would write of this Model 1876 in his Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: “The Winchester stocked and sighted to suit myself is by all odds the best weapon I ever had, and now use it almost exclu


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