We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. But in the case of the purported tintype of Belle Starr, which sold for $7,000 during Brian Lebel’s 14th Annual Cody Old West Show & Auction on June 26-28, 2003, a picture has generated a thousand words. The image appeared in Collecting the West in the Nov/Dec 2003 issue of True West, which covered the auction. The caption to the photo stated, “Brian Lebel was upfront about the image’s unknown provenance, but Robert G. McCu

June 2004
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- In a Land of Extremes
- Cowboy Up America
- The Buffalo Hunt
- Beyond Custer Hill
- If Johnny Ringo had participated in the famous O.K. Corral gunfight, what do you think the outcome would have been?
- My favorite license plate is Wyoming’s. Can you tell me about its bucking horse logo?
- Are there real bodies buried in Tombstone, Arizona’s Boot Hill? I’ve heard the markers are fake.
- Down to the Last Moccasin
- Phippen Art Museum
- Long-Guns of the Gunfighters
- One Handsome Gun
- Forging a Road to Zion
- Texas True
- Ruxton’s Trading Post
- In the Eye of the Beholder
- Boot Scootin’ Boogie
- Donaldina Cameron
- Bombs Over Texas