Thomas Bennett: The Man Behind the Winchester Brand
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Thomas Bennett was a master salesman and businessman who helped, along with John Moses Browning, create the iconic American firearms brand Winchester.
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| 0:48.4 | And here to tell another great American story is our own Ashley Lubinsky, a frequent contributor here at Our American Stories. |
| 0:57.7 | He is the former co-host of Discovery Channel's Master of Arms, the former curator in charge of the Cody Firearms Museum, |
| 1:05.5 | and she's the co-founder of the University of Wyoming College of Laws Firearms Research Center. |
| 1:12.5 | Here's Ashland. |
| 1:16.5 | A lot of people know the name Winchester. |
| 1:19.9 | They know the name Winchester as the quote-unquote gun that won the West. |
| 1:23.9 | They know the name from any Western movie that's ever been made since Buffalo Bill filmed some of his work. |
| 1:31.0 | So the Winchester name is so prominent that sometimes you forget that there are other people behind the company name. |
| 1:40.5 | And one of the people who was attributed with making Winchester really what it was was a guy named Thomas Bennett. |
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