“Details the extraordinary life of Oliver Winchester, the company, and its rapid rise and slow fall as told by a distant family descendant.”—American Guns

A “well-researched and very readable new biography” (The Wall Street Journal) of “the Thomas Edison of guns,” a visionary inventor who designed the mode

The history of American firearms is inseparable from the history of the United States, for firearms have played crucial roles in the nation’s founding, westwa