Downtrodden is the word that comes to mind while gazing at one of James Earle Fraser’s most famous artworks. A fatigued horse, head lowered and...
No End to its Trail
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Klondike Kickstarter
He was too young to read the message scratched on the back, but four-year-old Richard Fike knew he loved the carriage clock he had found in Alaska...
The Last Shootist: A Classic Tale of the Wild West
Author Miles Swarthout’s The Last Shootist (Forge Books, $24.99), a much-anticipated sequel to his father Glendon Swarthout’s best-selling novel The...
True West’s “Old West Savior” Lynda A. Sánchez Shares Her Love of Good Books
Teaching is her vocation. Preservation is her passion. History is her muse. Lynda A. Sánchez, who moved to Lincoln, New Mexico, over 40 years ago,...
Rough Drafts 11/14
“Where does the West begin or end?” Dr. Albert L. Hurtado asked rhetorically in my graduate seminar on the West at Arizona State University. Is...
The First Westerns Star
Arkansas native Max Aronson was in New Jersey in 1903, trying to angle his way into movie stardom. Director Edwin S. Porter asked the 23 year old...
A New-Old Straight Shooter
In the firearms world, the name “Shiloh” has come to mean the maker of the finest quality modern reproductions of the famed single-shot Sharps...
History Unmasked
The history of North American horse culture is epitomized by the full-face horse mask in red trade cloth, with black velvet trim and seed blue star...
A Dangerous and Bloody Citizen
March 10, 1864 Jack Slade, once the heroic peacekeeper of the Central Overland stagecoach line, is drunk and in an ugly mood on the main street of...
Masters of Western Art
Western historical art has two great masters to whom all later artists are compared: Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. The peers have their...
The Hat Rules
The right hat can make all the difference in a Western. Just think back to Robert Duvall’s pheasant-taking-over-his-head job he wore in 1972’s Joe...
A Skirmish with the Bottle Instead of the Braves
The life of a frontier soldier in the American West involved more combat with boredom than forays against hostile tribesmen. Troopers adopted a...