For those collectors who can afford to spend a million and some change, this was a great year to score some fantastic pieces by Howard Terpning. The...

Joe Small followed a hunch. Every time he ran a letter about Old West badmen in his Sporting Magazine, his mailbox would bulge with responses, so he...

Last October I made my umpteenth trip to New Mexico from Arizona where I live. Like the preeminent Billy the Kid scholar Fred Nolan and master...

To promote Arizona’s centennial, our contributing editors Jana Bommersbach and Arizona State Historian Marshall Trimble teamed up with Executive...

“We’ve long held a fascination for the gunmen of the Wild West, and firearms enthusiasts have been especially interested in the hardware used by...

More Western music is being recorded and performed today than at any other time, but the question is: Who is listening? For the most part, Baby...

“Larry McMurtry bugs the hell out of me. He set out to ‘demystify’ the West and strip it bare—what kind of respect is that? But then he writes...

After Buck Brannaman got his deserving tribute in the award-winning Buck feature documentary last year, we all thought that Paul Bond should be next...

We run into John Wayne fans everywhere we go in this great nation of ours, and by New Year’s Day, after the holiday gifts have all been exchanged or...

Here are the winners of our "2013 Best of the West." Sit back and see if your pick made the list.               THE BEST OF THE WEST: MOVIES   BEST...