Meghan Saar

Meghan Saar is the editor of True West, the world’s oldest, continuously published Western Americana magazine. She has worked in niche publication content development since 2002, and she has a B.S. in Journalism and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona—Tucson.

Private Eye Cowboy? A Texan’s First Generation Colt sold with a badge tied to a nationwide detective agency.

Born on November 3, 1877, in Hillsboro, Texas, Laney Thomas Cathey was four when the railroad arrived. His relatives bel…

Monkey Business A million-dollar sale at Brian Lebel’s proves collecting the Old West attracts more wealth than a monkey riding a goat.

A half-scale saddle that advertised Buffalo Bill’s Wild West act of a monkey riding a goat was among the top historical …

A Plague of Flea Market Billys Another alleged Billy the Kid tintype finds a new worldwide audience.

The conversation all started with a letter from my hometown, Buffalo, New York. Rob McElroy had sent a note to the Yahoo…

Big Year for Custer Guns Roughly three quarter of a million dollars earned on three Custer-era firearms.

The year 2017 turned out to be an excellent year to collect firearms tied to a storied icon, George Custer, and his most…

An Enduring Everyman Hero Tom Petty: 1950-2017.

One of my favorite photographs of rock ’n’ roll frontman Tom Petty was taken on March 10, 1977, by Michael Putland. The …

Blessed Booze A whiskey salesman and a Presbyterian pastor liven up the American History sale at Cowan’s Auctions.

A Presbyterian pastor and a Mormon walked into a saloon. The first railed against the distribution of liquor and all the…

True West Best of the West 2018 Art and Collectibles Bit by the Collecting Bug

When “Old Hosstail” Joe Austell Small founded True West Magazine 65 years ago, in 1953, he could not foresee that his pi…

A Bozeman Christmas Clashes over booze and a founder’s murder get swept under the rug 150 years ago to prove this Montana Territory town was keeping with the Christmas spirit.

On Christmas Day in 1867, three years after the founding of this fair Montana Territory city, Bozeman was elected by cit…

An Unusual Scale Edgar Alwin Payne’s close-up view of Navajo scouts bid the highest at Jackson Hole Art Auction.

Edgar Alwin Payne’s language of the Southwestern landscape mainly spoke of brilliant cliffs and skies towering over a sm…

The Real Frank James The glorified outlaw, and why he shed his criminal skin after the death of his younger, and more famous, brother.

Nobody asks, “Who is Jesse James?” Books, movies, newspapers, dime novels have all shared his story, from the days when …

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