It’s Not Just the Money; It’s the Story Auction houses and Western collectors enjoyed a banner year of selling and buying art, collectibles and firearms. Why do we collect The West? For most of us it’s not about the money, nor is it just an investment. It is about a love of the artifacts. And why? Sometimes it’s their sheer beauty, like the exquisitely engraved firearms offered by Rock Island Auctions at the beginning of 2021, or the luminescence of a R. Tom Gilleon painting of a tepee


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