Our team’s quest to capture Crazy Horse’s visage was a bear. There are no known photographs of Crazy Horse. Yes, there are several...
Crazy Hunt
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Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Sayings "Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still." Quotes "It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose...
Working on the Railroad
Were they employees of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad? The six men in the photo, including the four on the handcart and two with steel bars on the...
Western Roundup: June 2022
Gold Rush Days Sidney, NE, June 10-12: Experience the Black Hills gold rush of 1876 through skits, re-enactments and cowboy lore about the town’s...
What History Has Taught Me: Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Author, Graphic Novelist Jeffrey J. Mariotte is the award-winning author of dozens of books, including the historical Western epic Blood and Gold:...
Katy Haber
Sam Peckinpah’s Girl Friday, and Saturday, and Sunday, and… Film is the most collaborative of arts: no one makes a movie alone. So, how...
An Epic Tale of Life and Death
A great novel about the legendary Geronimo, a new history of U.S.-Mexico’s La Frontiera, two classic Western novels and a new history of Silver...
Darlings of the Rodeo
Naughty or Nice. Daringly dressed in voluminous bloomers or divided skirts, with boots and big hats, cowgirls first galloped into American arenas...
Winchester’s 1876 Mountie Carbine
When it was introduced at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition of 1876, Winchester’s Centennial Model was the largest and the most powerful...
Making a Good Impression in the West
With the rise of photography in the second half of the 19th century, art no longer needed to be a visual record. One result was the...
A Flood of Fakes
The silverwork is perfect, the turquoise is spectacular, so is the price tag, but after all, this was made by a Native American and will be a...
Ambush!
The courage of a lawman led to his untimely death. Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones had guts—nobody questioned that. He had fought outlaws...