After the Civil War, savvy frontiersmen chose the Spencer repeating carbine.
At the conclusion of the Civil War, the Spencer Repeating Rifle Company had sold more than 100,000 military arms to U.S. forces. Although the company enjoyed great success during the war, such massive production of guns worked against it in the postwar years. Many thousands of Spencer military surplus rifles and carbines were being sold for far less than the company’s sporting rifles. Spencer had literally produced h

True West July/August 2024