Bouncing Back After a Year of Online Displays, Curators Eagerly Await Visitors. After more than a year of COVID-19 restrictions, Western art museums...
Western Museums Reopen with Hope and Optimism By Candy Moulton For those of us who love visiting museums to see new exhibitions, new additions to...
This city struck it rich with a well-preserved ghost town. The Cartwrights and Bonanza made Virginia City, Nevada, famous. But the other...
The famed photographer's leap into silent films was anything but successful. While Edward S. Curtis’s photographs, and especially his 20...
Jeff Guinn’s new book War on the Border, a fresh biography of Custer, a collection of Western classics, and updated histories of the Blackfoot...
Isaac “Little Jakey” Jacobs raced his way into history. Tombstone, Arizona, is known for many things, but I’d bet you’ve never heard of its...
Hit the road across Oklahoma and Texas to discover the history behind the Warren Wagon Train Raid and the Kiowa Indian Trial of 1871. It...
True West's Historical Consultant Fondly Remembers his Most Treasured Birthday Gift It was the autumn of 1962, and we had just returned from a...
Kid Curry vs. Pike Landusky Town's Namesake Laid Low as the Wildest of the Wild Bunch Takes Off December 27, 1894 Celebrating the holidays in...
The Fearless Mirror Makers of the Arizona Territory Arizona and the Southwest were virtually unknown in the middle of the 19th century. A few...
Edward Curtis's Final Adventure What we know: He was 59. He had a bad hip after a whale upended his boat while he was making a film. He would travel...
The Man who Saved 100 Nations Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) was a 19th-century Western pioneer and entrepreneur, known for his photography,...