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Best of the West 2022: Western Preservation
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Best of the West 2022: Firearms
Old West Classics Remain Popular Timeless frontier six-guns, rifles and scatterguns lead the list for this year’s top guns. While the...
Best of the West 2022: Western Fare
Oysters and Champagne Ring in the New Year The tradition has been enjoyed across the West for more than 150 years. German immigrant Jacob Schram...
Best of the West 2022: Art & Collectibles
It’s Not Just the Money; It’s the Story Auction houses and Western collectors enjoyed a banner year of selling and buying art, collectibles and...
Best of the West 2022: True Westerner of the Year
Riding - and Writing - for the Brand! Phil Spangenberger If you have ever spoken to Phil Spangenberger about the Old West, historical firearms,...
Best of the West 2022
Our 20th Annual Celebration of the Absolute Best of the West The year 2021 was a year of both reflection and celebration. Once again, as spring...
Cave Creek Ambush
December 22, 1873 Tonto Apaches vs Al Sieber and the 5th Cavalry Stationed at Camp McDowell, northeast of Phoenix, A.T., a unit of the 5th...
Yellowstone: Protected Forever
The 150th anniversary of the first national park commemorates the beginning of America’s grand and wonderful national parks and monuments system. On...
A Real Woman Bandit
Pearl Hart was a wildcat on and off the outlaw trail. Few Old West outlaws have had so many myths written about them as Pearl Hart, the Arizona...
Mr. Authenticity
Many fans of Westerns, especially the True West maniacs, are guilty of picking them apart for the anachronisms all too often found in such...
Braves and Badges
Early American Indian Police played a strong role in the settlement of the West. Before recorded history, American Indians practiced some form of...
Earp Versus Breakenridge
The feud continued long after the two had left Tombstone. Wyatt Earp. William “Billy” Breakenridge. They were certainly on opposite sides during the...