At this year’s Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, held in Reno, Nevada, on July 21, collectors found a grand offering of masters and contemporary artists...
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They Called Me Janey
“Your woman who accompanied you that long dangerous and fatigueing rout to the Pacific Ocean and back, deserved a greater reward for her attention...
53 Statues You Need to See Before You Die
Nearly half a century after Denver denizens commissioned Preston Powers to create Closing of an Era, the city put its faith in a prominent sculptor...
The Last Hash Knife Cowboy
"I consider it a damn good outfit,” George W. Hennessey once said of the infamous Hash Knife Outfit at the Aztec Land & Cattle Company, at one...
The Bravest Lawman You’ve Never Heard Of
Bob Paul was one of the greatest of all frontier peace officers. His extraordinary life of high adventure—first as a whaler in the South Pacific,...
Buffalo Tracks
In the Rockies of Western Montana, I have the most perfect view of a buffalo. It’s inspiring, humbling, beautiful, majestic. Char-grilled, eight...
Sam Sixkiller
Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman is a very important book, if only for the fact that it is one of the first, if not the first, biographies of...
Butch Cassidy, My Uncle
For some time Bill Betenson has been promising an update to his great-grandmother’s book, Butch Cassidy, My Brother. This book, Butch Cassidy, My...
County Fair Fixin’s
“At Healdsburg, the first county fair, we received a silver butter knife for the best butter,” recalled Mrs. Eliza Gregson, who had arrived in...
Feud-Mania
The dictionary defines a “feud” as a “long-running argument or fight between parties—often groups of people, especially families or clans.” This...
Hardin Goes to Blazes
In the late summer of 1895, El Paso, Texas, was John Wesley Hardin’s town. A few months earlier, the attorney had been brought in to help his...
Colt’s Equalizers
“God created men; Col. Colt made them equal.” So goes the oft-repeated quote about Col. Samuel Colt and his legendary firearms. Yet Col. Colt made...