Winchester Model 94 30-30 24k Gold Plated w/ Nickel – 9 of 10 made.

Winchester Model 94 30-30 Alamosa County Colorado A&A master engraved 24k Gold Plated & Nickel Limited Edition Commemorative Collection (Never Fired 9 of 10)

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This is 9 of only 10 ever made for Alamosa County Colorado.  Engraved by the renown A&A engravers in SD. Way nicer in person.  Nice oak display case. No original box or manual. Never fired & been on display for several years.

Alamosa County Colorado - Before written history, native American cultures, including Clovis and Folsom, hunted and gathered in the area 11,000 years ago. Spain claimed the area in the 1500s and established land grants to attract settlers. However, clashes with Comanches left the valley largely unsettled for many years. Zebulon Pike, exploring the southern part of the Louisiana Purchase and after his discovery of Pike’s Peak, was awed by the view of the Sand Dunes (likely from Medano Pass) in 1807. Until Mexico’s liberation from Spain in 1821, Spain claimed the San Luis Valley. The 1850s saw the first group of permanent settlements.

Gold and silver discoveries near Summitville in 1870 fueled the mining rush to the San Luis Valley. While other mining settlements quickly followed at Creede and Bonzana, the history of the San Luis Valley’s settlement was greatly influenced by the railroad, farming, ranching, and timber. Just two years after Colorado became a state, a narrow-gauge train loaded with expectant settlers and their belongings stopped at a protected bend in the Rio Grande shaded by a grove of cottonwoods. In 1878, the town of Alamosa—Spanish for cottonwood grove—was founded.

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