Winchester: the gun that won the West

Firearms production in the 1850s

An experiment in repeating firearms

Crisis and trial

Laying the foundation

Postwar adjustment

Diversification and expansion

Management, labor, and inside contracting

Era of development

Competition in marketing firearms

Competition in marketing ammunition

Summary of Converse's administration

End of the contract system

Advent of smokeless powder

Struggle for supremacy

Sales problems of the early 1900s

Theodore Roosevelt and Winchester

End of the association

Summary of Bennett's administration

Winchester aids the allies

Winchester and the U.S. government

Postwar reorganization

Postwar planning and management

Launching the postwar program

Old-line products and finances

Winchester and Simmons

Testing the merger

Liggett's administration

Summary and conclusion.