“Expect great things of art. Hope to be moved by it—to happiness, to reflection; even, if need be, to sorrow. Ask very much of art. And art, great...
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Old Cowtown Museum
Being a Kansas Gas and Electric man, Phil Hoch wasn’t sure he could be quick enough on his feet to dance in the Entre Nous, a Victorian dance group...
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Critics who wallpapered The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada with references to Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia missed the...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Two-Disc Collector’s Edition
George Roy Hill’s take on the story of the Wild Bunch was a stunning success, a $100 million crowd pleaser that was snubbed by the critics and some...
John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection
The Duke is back. On March 13, 1956, The Searchers opened across America in all its VistaVision glory, and if you’d asked John Wayne back...
Matriarch of the “Nudie Suit”
She was the original Rhinestone Cowgirl—a lady who believed “it is always better to be looked over, than to be overlooked.” And she held onto that...
Larry McMurtry’s Creations
“The West,” Larry McMurtry wrote in his 1968 essay “Southwestern Literature,” “has produced many good books but perhaps, as yet, no great books.”...
Blazing the Mullan Road
Army engineers bent on establishing a wagon route across Montana and into the Pacific Northwest began surveys and explorations in 1853 for what...
Doomed to Be an Artist
"Looking back, I wasn’t so bad. “Dropping out of high school at the age of 16 to pursue a career in art wasn’t an option,” admits Everett Raymond...
Not Just a Dude’s Market Anymore
A young teen, in the 1880s, heads west to Montana to try his hand at cowboying. His passion for adventure converts him to the wilds of the Bonanza...
Where the Buffalo Roam
A buffalo by any other name would still … not get the ink of Bill Cody. C.J. Jones knew that firsthand. He was a hunter and scout; he even rode with...
Remington Schuyler’s West
Western art of the 1920-30s somehow awakens a degree of nostalgia in all of us, and there is plenty of it here. Artist Remington Schuyler...