We will be a living institution. We will offer experiences. We will be the storytellers.” That’s how museum director Michael J. Fox describes his latest project: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, in the historic downtown of an Arizona city that calls itself the “West’s most Western town.” “We wanted to be very different from the traditional museum,” Fox says of the 40,000-square-foot museum that will open in January 2015. “Collections wouldn’t be the driver. We wouldn’t j

February 2015
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- The Touch Of Roy and Dale, Vol. Ii
- Gordon Snidow
- Year of the Indian
- The Ball that Killed Wild Bill
- The Valiant and Brave
- Arrest Those Spies!
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2015
- The Wife of Wyatt Earp’s Sworn Enemy
- Weapons of the Indian Wars
- A Difficult Man to Kill
- The Gold Rush That Changed the World
- Was Billy the Kid’s girlfriend pregnant at the time he was killed?
- How many men did Doc Holliday kill?
- When were boots and shoes fitted for left and right feet?
- What is known about a couple of outlaws called Harpe?
- February 2015 Events
- He Knew Them All
- James Beckwourth
- The West’s Newest Museum
- Blowing in the Wind
- The Bacon Cure
- Kit Carson’s Horseback Duel
- Butterfield’s Trail West
- Portrait of America
- Mystery of Mists and Mountain Men
- Guns and Outlaws
- On the Edge of the West with Max McCoy
- Rough Drafts 2/15
- Who is the man James Arness shoots every week in the introduction to Gunsmoke?