The Widow and the Winchester
Episode #107
2019-02-01 13:48:28
When Sarah Winchester’s husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium reportedly told Sarah that she would be haunted by the victims of that rifle unless she used her fortune to build a house, and never stop building. That’s exactly what she did.
Pamela Haag’s book is The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture.
The Winchester House before damage from the 1906 earthquake.
A rare photograph of Sarah Winchester (in the carriage)
An 1898 advertisement for the Winchester rifle.