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Winchester Model 1866 "Yellow Boy"
Nicknamed the "Yellow Boy" for the characteristic hue of the receiver, the Winchester Model 1866 was an improved version of the Henry 1860, in particular allowing for faster and easier loading. Having gained wide popularity, the M1866 was produced until 1898 (1899 according to other sources), in particular due to being cheaper than later models with similar characteristics. It was also the first rifle actually produced under the Winchester brand.
A number of rifles were also purchased by the French and Turkish armies. The latter is also commonly described as "causing much surprise when outnumbered Turks at the Siege of Plevna inflicted many times more casualties", although in reality the destructive range of Winchester (which was mainly issued to the cavalry) was understandably limited, and the Turks used the standard-issue Peabody-Martini at long distances (and apparently not all ordered rifles were actually delivered due to various problems).
Specifications
(1866 - 1898)
- Type: Rifle
- Caliber: .44 RF. Modern reproductions: .38 Special, .44/40, .45 Colt
- Weight: Carbine: 7.8 lbs (3.5 kg) / Sporting Rifle: 9 lbs (4.1 kg) / Musket: 8.3 lbs (3.7 kg)
- Length: Carbine: 39 in (99.1 cm) / Sporting Rifle: 43 in (109.2 cm) / Musket: 46 in (116.8 cm)
- Barrel length: Carbine: 20 in (50.8 cm) / Sporting Rifle: 24 in (61 cm) / Musket: 27 in (68.6 cm)
- Feed System: Carbine: 13 round tubular magazine / Sporting Rifle and Musket: 17 round tubular magazine
- Fire Modes: Lever-action
The Winchester Model 1866 "Yellow Boy" and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarzan of the Apes | Arabian slavers, member of seaching squard | 1918 | ||
| By the Law (Po zakonu) | Aleksandra Khokhlova | Edith Nelson | Musket version | 1926 |
| Frontier (Aerograd) | A native hunter | 1935 | ||
| Soviet Border (Na granitse) | Nikolay Vinogradov | Yerofey Vlasov | Musket version | 1938 |
| Belle Starr | Bounty hunter | 1941 | ||
| White Fang | Lev Sverdlin | Matt | Musket version | 1946 |
| Oleg Zhakov | Weedon Scott | |||
| Fort Apache | John Wayne | CPT Kirby York | 1948 | |
| Flaming Star | John McIntire | Sam Burton | Rifle | 1960 |
| The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Clint Eastwood | Blondie (The Man With No Name) | Mocked up to look like Henry 1860 | 1966 |
| Death Rides a Horse | John Phillip Law | Bill | 1966 | |
| Luigi Pistilli | Walcott | |||
| Walcott's henchmen, sheriff's deputies | ||||
| The Sons of Great Bear (Die Söhne der großen Bärin) | Jozef Majercík | Tschetansapa | Carbine | 1966 |
| Rolf Ripperger | Jok | Musket | ||
| Walter E. Fuß | Theo | |||
| Martin Tapák | Schonka | |||
| Let Them Rest | Vittorio Duse | "El Doblado" | 1967 | |
| Rossana Martini | Lupe | |||
| Mark Damon | George Bellow Ferguson | In holster on saddle | ||
| Various | Ferguson's gunmen | |||
| The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio) | Frank Wolff | Sheriff Burnett | 1968 | |
| The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio) | Klaus Kinski | Tigrero / Loco | 1968 | |
| The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio) | Different characters | 1968 | ||
| True Grit | Jeff Corey | Tom Chaney | Mocked up to look like Henry 1860 | 1969 |
| The Legend of Frenchie King (Les Pétroleuses) | Michael J. Pollard | The sheriff | 1971 | |
| The Legend of Frenchie King (Les Pétroleuses) | Claudia Cardinale | Marie Sarrazin | 1971 | |
| My Name Is Nobody | members of the Wild Bunch | 1973 | ||
| Keoma | Franco Nero | Keoma | 1976 | |
| Keoma | William Berger | William Shannon | 1976 | |
| Keoma | Woody Strode | George | 1976 | |
| Keoma | Caldwell's henchmen | 1976 | ||
| A Man Called Blade (Mannaja) | Maurizio Merli | Mannaja | 1977 | |
| Philippe Leroy | Ed McGowan | |||
| Donald O'Brien | Burt Craven | |||
| Antonio Casale | Dahlman | |||
| Voller's, McGowan's and Dahlman's men | ||||
| The White Buffalo | Charles Bronson | Wild Bill Hickock | 1977 | |
| Jack Warden | Charlie Zane | |||
| Heaven's Gate | Jeff Bridges | John L. Bridges | Without the handguard | 1980 |
| Death Hunt | posse member | 1981 | ||
| Oasis of the Zombies | Black archeologist | 1982 | ||
| The Trust That Has Burst (Trest, kotoryy lopnul) | Cowboys and townsmen | Carbines and muskets | 1982 | |
| The Aviator | Will Hare | The Old Man | Musket version | 1985 |
| Slave Coast (Cobra Verde) | Brazilian Army soldiers | 1987 | ||
| L.A. Bounty | Thug | 1989 | ||
| Back to the Future Part III | Christopher Lloyd | Doc Brown | Large loop lever and custom scope | 1990 |
| Unforgiven | Jeremy Ratchford | Dep. Andy Russell | Mocked up to look like Henry 1860 | 1992 |
| Wild Bill | Bruce Dern | Will Plummer | 1995 | |
| Forest Warrior | uncredited | mercenary | 1996 | |
| The Juror | Shooter | 1996 | ||
| Purgatory | Outlaws and posse members | Carbine | 1999 | |
| High Noon | Tom Skerritt | Will Kane | 2000 | |
| The Prince of the Pacific (Le prince du Pacifique) | Marie Trintignant | Moeata | 2000 | |
| Thierry Lhermitte | Capt. de Morsac | |||
| Patrick Timsit | Barnabé | |||
| Crossfire Trail | Ken Pogue | Gene Thompson | 2001 | |
| Crossfire Trail | David O'Hara | Rock Mullaney | 2001 | |
| Crossfire Trail | Marshall R. Teague | Marshall R. Teague | 2001 | |
| Crossfire Trail | Ken Pogue | Gene Thompson | 2001 | |
| Monte Walsh | Keith Carradine | Chet Rollins | 2002 | |
| Open Range | Michael Jeter | Percy | 2003 | |
| The Missing | Apaches | Both in Carbine and Rifle versions | 2003 | |
| Shaun of the Dead | Simon Pegg | Shaun | 2004 | |
| The Turkish Gambit (Turetskiy gambit) | Egor Beroev | Erast Petrovich Fandorin | 2005 | |
| Miracle at Sage Creek | Tim Abell | John Red Eagle | 2005 | |
| Miracle at Sage Creek | Brian Libby | Frank | 2005 | |
| Skinwalkers | David Sparrow | Manny the Butcher | 2007 | |
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | posse member | 2007 | ||
| Appaloosa | Viggo Mortensen | Everett Hitch | 2008 | |
| Appaloosa | Rex Linn | Sheriff Stringer | 2008 | |
| Lone Rider | Stacy Keach | Robert Hattaway | Carbine | 2008 |
| Terry Maratos | Curtis | |||
| Chanbara Beauty: The Movie - Vortex | Rika Kawamura | Reiko | 2009 | |
| Lucky Luke | thugs | 2009 | ||
| Survival of the Dead | Richard Fitzpatrick | Seamus Muldoon | 2010 | |
| True Grit | Barry Pepper | "Lucky" Ned Pepper | 2010 | |
| American Bandits: Frank and Jesse James | Tim Abell | Frank James | Carbine | 2010 |
| Jeffrey Combs | Ed Bass | |||
| Ted Monte | Tyler | |||
| Lauren Eckstrom | Mary Simpson | |||
| Cowboys & Aliens | Daniel Craig | Jake Lonergan | 2011 | |
| Cowboys & Aliens | Harrison Ford | Woodrow Dolarhyde | 2011 | |
| Cowboys & Aliens | Raoul Trujillo | Black Knife | 2011 | |
| Cowboys & Aliens | Adam Beach | Nat Colorado | 2011 | |
| Cowboys & Aliens | Keith Carradine | Sheriff John Taggert | 2011 | |
| Cowboys & Aliens | gang members | 2011 | ||
| Cowboys & Aliens | Apache warriors | 2011 | ||
| Blackthorn | Dominique McElligott | Etta Place | 2011 | |
| Machete Kills | On gun wall | 2013 | ||
| Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart (La prochaine fois je viserai le coeur) | Guillaume Canet | Franck Neuhart | 2014 | |
| The Salvation | Eric Cantona | Corsican | Carbine | 2014 |
| Douglas Henshall | Sheriff Mallick | |||
| Nick Borain | "Man With Cigar" | |||
| Langley Kirkwood | "Man With Beard" | |||
| David James | Tracker | |||
| Anthony Oseyemi | Jefferson | |||
| Dan Robbertse | Deputy Aron | Denix replica | ||
| Andre Odendaal | Deputy Cash | |||
| Robert Hoobs | "Silvertooth" | |||
| St John Alexander | "One Eyed Jack" | |||
| Slow West | Michael Fassbender | Silas Selleck | 2015 | |
| Forsaken | Aaron Poole | Frank Tillman | Rifle | 2015 |
| Terry A. Brown | Chadwick's man | |||
| A Hologram for the King | Tom Hanks | Alan Clay | 2016 | |
| The Magnificent Seven | Haley Bennett | Emma Cullen | 2016 | |
| Byung-hun Lee | Billy Rocks | |||
| Brimstone | Dakota Fanning | Liz | Carbine | 2016 |
| Bill Tangradi | Nathan | Rifle | ||
| Wonder Woman | Eugene Brave Rock | Chief Napi | 2017 | |
| Hostiles | Scott Shepherd | Wesley Quaid | Rifle | 2017 |
| A Comanche warrior | Carbine | |||
| The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | A Sioux warrior | Rifle | 2018 | |
| The Kid | Chris Bylsma | Charlie Bowdre | Rifle | 2019 |
| Carlos Amorin | Sheriff Romero's deputy | Rifle | ||
| Ethan Hawke | Sheriff Pat Garrett | Rifle | ||
| Sheriff Garrett's deputies | Carbine | |||
| Deadwood: The Movie | Don Swayze | Seacrest | Carbine | 2019 |
| News of the World | Almay's and Farley's henchmen | Rifle, carbines | 2020 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note/Episode | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Tutashkhia | Leo Pilpani | Bodgo Kvaltava | Ep.3; Carbine and musket | 1977 |
| Gogi Kharabadze | Kaza Chkhetia | |||
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn | Vladislav Galkin | Huckleberry Finn | Carbine | 1982 |
| Boris Zajdenberg | Judge Thatcher | |||
| Fyodor Odinokov | Old farmer | |||
| Sheriff's deputies | ||||
| Sheriff's deputy, National Guards | Musket | |||
| Sledge Hammer! | David Rasche | Sledge Hammer | pilot | 1986 |
| The Quick and the Dead | Kate Capshaw | Susanna McKaskel | 1987 | |
| Lonesome Dove | Julius Tennon | Frog Lips | 1989 | |
| Lonesome Dove | Timothy Scott | Pea Eye | 1989 | |
| The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes | Seen in Gibson's guns collection; (S01E02) | 1991 | ||
| Return To Lonesome Dove | Dennis Haysbert | Jack Jackson | 1993 | |
| Return To Lonesome Dove | Barry Tubb | Jasper Fant | 1993 | |
| Midsomer Murders | Seen in S13E3 "Blood on the Saddle" | 2010 | ||
| Longmire | Reynaldo Gallegos | Dan Estes | pilot | 2012 |
| Revolution - Season 1 | Plains Nation militiaman | "The Love Boat" (S1E16) | 2013 | |
| Lee Blackmore | Robert Neary | |||
| Agent Carter | Hayley Atwell | Peggy Carter | 2015 | |
| Wynonna Earp | US Marshal | "Everybody Knows" (S2E07) | 2017 | |
| Godless | Jack O'Connell | Roy Goode | Carbine | 2017 |
| Jeff Daniels | Frank Griffin | |||
| Adam David Thompson | Gatz Brown | |||
| Ali Agirnas | Nicholas Gustavson | |||
| Jessica Sulla | Louise Hobbs | |||
| Women of La Belle | Carbines and rifles | |||
| Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles (Sherlok v Rossii) | Vladimir Mishukov | Dr. Ilya Kartsev | Denix replica; dull grey finish | 2020 |
| Oleg Popov | Capt. Zosimov | |||
| Prof. Bakhmetyev's manservant | ||||
| Around the World in 80 Days | Elena Saurel | Sally | Ep. 07; Rifle | 2021 |
| Gary Beadle | Bass Reeves | Ep. 07; Carbine | ||
| Ibrahim Koma | Passepartout | |||
| David Tennant | Phileas Fogg | |||
| Outlaws | ||||
| 1883 | LaMonica Garrett | Thomas | Rifle | 2021 |
| The Last of Us - Season 1 | seen in armory; "Long Long Time" (S1E03) | 2023 | ||
| The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Season 1 | Paul Zies | Bike Survivor | "Coming Home" (S1E06) | 2023 |
| Melissa McBride | Carol Peletier |
Animation
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rango | Buford | Changes to Henry 1860 in (possibly intentional) continuity error | 2011 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desperados: Wanted Dead Or Alive | 2001 | ||
| Gun | 2005 | ||
| Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009 | ".30-30 Lever Action Rifle" | 2008 | |
| Fistful of Frags | "Yellowboy Rifle" | 2014 | |
| TheHunter: Call of the Wild | "Whitlock Model 86" | Model 1866 / 1886 Hybrid | 2017 |
| Red Dead Redemption II | "Lancaster Repeater" | 2018 |
See Also
- Winchester Repeating Arms - A list of all firearms manufactured by Winchester Repeating Arms.