A profit-making enterprise that ended up documenting history may make one’s stomach queasy—especially when a complete pi…
Beating a Retreat An Alfred Jacob Miller watercolor gets the top bid at Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction.
Alfred Jacob Miller did not leave his viewers guessing at what inspired his 200 watercolors that William Walters commiss…
Hunka, Hunka Burnin’ Iron Elvis Presley’s firearms set world records.
Two days before The Guardian published its exposé, “Can’t Help Falling in Price,” about how the deaths of Baby Boomers h…
She’s So Money Sacagawea and her sculptor on coin bring riches to the auction block.
Sacagawea played a major role in the success of the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United…
Breaking Broncs with the Bow-Gun Boys A famous pioneer photographer recounts the last busting at a historic Montana cow camp.
Around 1885, George “Dick” Ingersoll helped drive a herd of longhorns from Texas to Montana Territory and settled in the…
A Woman’s Work is Never Done The famed cowboy artist’s equal treatment of men and women keeps his art in the top spot.
The Plains Indian women’s role in the buffalo hunt was no small thing. “Theirs was harder work than buffalo hunting,” ex…
A Collection of Criminals An official Wells Fargo highwaymen album, Civil War memorabilia and militaria were among the collectibles once owned by an astute historian of American firearms.
Collectors knew Norman Flayderman as the man behind the bible of American firearms, Flayderman’s Guide to Antique Americ…
A First for Custer Firearms A cartridge case discovery leads up to an auction sale of the first firearm forensically proven to have been used at the 1876 battle site.
The “first firearm forensically proven to have been used” at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, as the auction catalog n…
A Big Bang Year The year 2016 saw earth-shattering records for frontier weapons that included the most expensive gun and knife.
Oliver Winchester introduced a legendary brand to the world in 1866, and in 2016, the 150th anniversary year of Winchest…
On the Hunt for Buffalo Bill Collectors bid high to land one of the earliest known images of the frontier scout.
The flowing locks and broad brimmed hat as William F. Cody cantered up on his horse made him “[look] like a picture of a…