"Perhaps it belonged to a lone cowboy riding the high range ... snow and rain, was found leaning against a tree in the park,” said Nichole Andler, chief of interpretation at Great Basin ...

The rifle had been "exposed to the sun, wind, snow and rain" and was found leaning against a tree in the park according to a post on the Great Basin National Park Facebook page. The stock's wood ...

Perhaps some 19th century rancher left it behind while chasing a wayward animal. Or a hunter set it down and couldn’t find his way back to it in the snow. Maybe it was abandoned in haste by an ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US experts are scratching their heads after finding a more than 130-year-old Wild West rifle leaning against a juniper tree in a remote area of a national park. The Winchester ...

The Facebook page for Great Basin National Park said in a post last week that researchers found the rifle, known as “the gun that won the West,” leaning up against a tree. “The 132 year-old ...

The rifle, which records show was manufactured and shipped by the gun maker in 1883, had been leaning against the Juniper tree for so long that the wood of its stock was cracked and deteriorated ...

It was a moment frozen in time – an 1873 Winchester repeating rifle propped up against the trunk of a juniper tree exactly where its owner had left it over a hundred years ago. Eva Jensen ...

Archaeologists discovered the gun, which was manufactured in 1882, leaning against a juniper tree while they were carrying out surveys. Experts do not yet know for certain how long it had been ...