Did cowboy poets perform in the Old West?David HiellerWickenburg, ArizonaYep, they sure did. Most of the early-day cowboys wrote poems based on a...
What happened to real-life saloon owner Al Swearengen, famously portrayed in HBO’s Deadwood?
What happened to real-life saloon owner Al Swearengen, famously...
Cheyenne: The Complete Third Season
Cheyenne, as a series, didn’t exactly break new ground as the show progressed. It didn’t need to, because it had a perfect formula: stacks of...
Monogram Cowboy Collection, Vol. 2
Of the eight features in this Monogram B-Westerns collection, two are in color (Cinecolor), and they both star Rod Cameron, who might have reached a...
The Big Trail
The Big Trail, director Raoul Walsh’s epic covered wagon frontier Western, keeps getting better and better. Released in 1930, it was everything a...
Welcome to Hard Times / Day of the Evil Gun
Henry Fonda was rounding 60 when he started working in a handsome number of Westerns, particularly 1965’s The Rounders, directed by Burt Kennedy....
Harley Brown
Harley Brown is a man of many faces. He is Canadian. He has a Russian alter ego. He was an English expatriate. But above all else, he is an artist....
10 for 10: Coeur d’Alene, ID
1. For a bicycling adventure you’ll talk about for years, ride the Route of the Hiawatha, crossing the rugged Bitterroot Mountains. Pass through...
West’s Best Greasy Spoons
In a country that is quickly becoming McDonald’s-ized, it’s comforting—and fattening—to find institutions across the West serving grub the way it...
The Corny Old West
“It was pretty tough in those times,” Mrs. Bell Mattison recalled about her years in Fillmore County, Nebraska, after she moved there with her...
A Proud People
The year 2012 is shaping up to be an incredible one for Howard Terpning and the art collectors who admire his work. At the Scottsdale Art Auction,...
Mr. Hornaday’s War
When he appears in history, William Temple Hornaday almost always shows up in sentences that include names like Teddy Roosevelt or Gifford Pinchot....