The Johnson-Sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style (University of North Texas Press, $24.95), by Bill O’Neal, features as the star-crossed...
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Cowgirl 101 in Apache Country
I rode a Mexican Mustang named Pancho through areas that would have felt downright claustrophobic during the days of Apache reign. While astride...
Uberti’s Wild West
Benelli USA wanted the characters, location and props in its latest Uberti ads, online catalog and videos to have an authentic Old West look and...
Trailing Alfred Jacob Miller in the West
Alfred Jacob Miller was 27 years old when Scotsman Capt. William Drummond Stewart visited his Baltimore studio in 1837. Stewart thought his upcoming...
A Crotchety Cowboy Mentor
Some 30,000 pictures ago, Gil Gustavsen and Cheryl Stapleton thought they were going in a totally different direction. Both transplants to Arizona,...
“Old Timer” and “Friend Dixon”
"Yes, I knew Charlie Russell—though not too well. I have always regretted that I did not know him better,” Maynard Dixon told an aspiring biographer...
The Tunstalls Return
You could call the visit a “belated family reunion.” Five members of a proper English family gathered in a New Mexico canyon in July 2010 on an...
Exploding Ginger Snaps?
“Ours was a high classed outfit and we would treat even a tenderfoot right until he got smart. “We wouldn’t tolerate any smart alecs in our bunch....
Too Much Sun
In mid-January, the high country was covered with snow, three feet in places. Frontier docs like Elijah Baines had seen similar cases, but not as...
Outerwear Out West
"A genuine mountaineer is a...kind of sui genus, an oddity, both in dress, language and appearance, from the rest of mankind." "Associated with...
Custer & the War Between the States
Montana artist Edgar S. Paxson’s painting Custer’s Last Stand is a gripping depiction of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn. Yet unknown to most...
Celebration of Non-Indian, Indian Art
“In his Kachina Painter, Mr. Couse represents a modern Indian painting on a wall one of the sacred symbols of his ancestors. “There is a hint of...