“BC&S Yard Sale” stated the subject line of an e-mail sent to me from Daniel Buck. I had been working with Dan on final touches for his and Anne...
History, Not For Sale
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Meghan Saar
Centennial Winchester Sells High
Before he charged San Juan Hill with his Rough Riders or became the 26th president of the United States, a 22-year-old Theodore Roosevelt ordered...
Gloomy Blumy’s Beautiful World
When the horse-drawn wagon slipped into a bad rut outside of Taos, New Mexico, in 1898, the two sketching buddies flipped a coin to see who would...
Top Artist on the Taos Society Totem
“Every now and then I see whirlwinds. Looking out now, I see one but as it approaches it is a band of Indians out on the ceremonial rabbit hunt....
Whiskey Rows
At 47, merchant Philip Drachman teamed his freight overland from Yuma, Arizona, by mule train before the Southern Pacific reached his home base in...
Signature Spurs
Pascal M. Kelly, born in 1886, turned out his first pair of spurs as early as 1903, in the Texas Panhandle town Childress. In 2008, one of his pairs...
Witness to History
The “massacre” at Wounded Knee is still contentious today. Some historians consider it a battle in which a peaceful surrender of weapons went...
The Emperor’s Old Guns
Imagine the elevator of a posh Vegas hotel opening its doors, revealing a man holding a toilet paper torch, wearing a king-sized sheet clad around...
Charlie Russell’s Newest Painting
Charlie Russell showed off his newest painting at this year's C.M. Russell Art Auction. Impossible, you say? The esteemed cowboy artist did so...
Columbia, California
Hildreth’s Diggings was a tent and shanty town housing the thousands of miners attracted to today’s Columbia after Dr. Thaddeus Hildreth, his...
Calgary, Alberta
At an elevation of 3,500 feet, the air is mountain fresh, and with chinook winds providing spring-like weather any winter month, the climate is...
Roadside Culture
“We call these people ‘untutored,’ and yet, to watch a desert dweller spill varicolored sands between his fingers into a magic pattern on the ground...