Archive of: Firearms

Best Of The West 2013: The Winchester Rifle

The gun that won the West.

By Steven Phelps

Best Of The West 2012: Annie Oakley

Readers chose Annie Oakley as a favorite Western icon. Read about the life of the sharpshooter born Phoebe Ann Moses.

The Colt Revolver In the American West

Wm. Brown Holster Co.'s Cisco Kid rig

It took the Tombstone, Arizona, holster- and saddle-maker two years of research and artistic collaboration to make it.

The Colt Peacemaker pistol a hot art collectible

The Colt 1873 Single Action Army revolver — "the gun that won the West" — has evolved to the status of collectible art.

by Kathleen Fritsche