What I have seen, lived and painted is only a chapter in the saga called the West. What we used to call the future is now the past.
It is called the “good old days,” where there were no cowboys riding horseback with a cellphone, wind farms, gooseneck trailers or crew cab pickups! In the “good old days,” the cowboys still dragged calves to the fire.
I began painting so long ago that I can hardly remember when I first started. I’m 78 years old, and I had my first art show in the

February 2015
In This Issue:
More In This Issue
- The Touch Of Roy and Dale, Vol. Ii
- Gordon Snidow
- Year of the Indian
- The Ball that Killed Wild Bill
- The Valiant and Brave
- Arrest Those Spies!
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2015
- The Wife of Wyatt Earp’s Sworn Enemy
- Weapons of the Indian Wars
- A Difficult Man to Kill
- The Gold Rush That Changed the World
- Was Billy the Kid’s girlfriend pregnant at the time he was killed?
- How many men did Doc Holliday kill?
- When were boots and shoes fitted for left and right feet?
- What is known about a couple of outlaws called Harpe?
- February 2015 Events
- He Knew Them All
- James Beckwourth
- The West’s Newest Museum
- Blowing in the Wind
- The Bacon Cure
- Kit Carson’s Horseback Duel
- Butterfield’s Trail West
- Portrait of America
- Mystery of Mists and Mountain Men
- Guns and Outlaws
- On the Edge of the West with Max McCoy
- Rough Drafts 2/15
- Who is the man James Arness shoots every week in the introduction to Gunsmoke?