Still an icon in modern day, the Model 1873 was one of the most successful Winchester rifles of its day, with Winchester marketing it as ‘The Gun That Won the West’. The famous Winchester rifle had many variations before it became the gun we know today. This burden, as Sarah saw it, led to possibly the most bizarre and extraordinary house ever being built – the Winchester Mansion. Although Sarah never took up a position within the company, her stake afforded her an income of the equivalent of 26,000 dollars a day. The Winchester family had accumulated enormous wealth and benefitted greatly from the deaths of what would become millions of people throughout the world. Prior to her husband’s death however, Sarah had begun to feel uncomfortable with the way in which the family money was earned.
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Due to a very peculiar series of events that happened in quick succession, Sarah, very abruptly, became heiress to the entire Winchester fortune: this meant, as well as inheriting 500 million dollars, she also held a 50 per cent shareholding in the biggest and greatest gun and ammunition manufacturing company that had ever existed. Sarah Winchester was the wife of William Winchester, the owner of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and producer of the famous Winchester Rifle. Its sole purpose was housing the ghosts of the dead people whom Sarah believed were haunting her. The Winchester mansion in San Jose, California was built by Sarah Winchester with the proceeds of what she considered to be ‘blood money’. “Do I believe in ghosts?… I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.” – M R.
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