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What History Has Taught Me: Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Ben Nighthorse Campbell For over 60 years, Northern Cheyenne artist Ben Nighthorse has been creating beautiful, one-of-a-kind, award-winning...
A Treasure Trove of Artifacts
Brian Lebel's annual Old West Auction in Santa Fe gaveled out a weekend of surprises. The ancestors of today’s museums were "cabinets of...
The Most Well-Known Unknown Western Illustrator
A.R. Mitchell's paintings are so "moving." His name won’t trip off the tongue, but everyone knows his images: If the horses aren’t bucking, they’re...
He Missed the Scoop
John Clum was busy when the Tombstone street fight took place. It’s entirely possible to get so engrossed in a task that one misses a big...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. Beecher...
Wider Herd
Long may our stories be told. When my Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp book was first published (1993), I did a book-signing at the...
Truth Be Known
OLD VAQUERO SAYING "The wages of sin are unreported." QUOTES "The truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." -William...
The Walk Down
My Darling Clemetine is renowned Western artist Thom Ross’s latest interpretation of the walk down prior to the shootout behind the O.K. Corral on...
What History Has Taught Me: Jeremy Rowe
Dr. Jeremy Rowe, Photographer, Historian, Scientist Dr. Jeremy Rowe has collected and researched 19th- and early 20th-century photographs and wrote...
Frontier Privies and Cowboy Cooks
Marshall Trimble is Arizona’s official historian and vice president of the Wild West History Association. His latest book is Arizona Oddities: Land...
Western Roundup: September 2021
32nd Annual Fiesta de Septiembre Wickenburg, AZ, September 4, 2021: Celebrate Wickenburg’s Hispanic pioneer heritage at this event. Activities...