Sacagawea played a major role in the success of the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States. The teenaged Lemhi...
She’s So Money
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Breaking Broncs with the Bow-Gun Boys
Around 1885, George “Dick” Ingersoll helped drive a herd of longhorns from Texas to Montana Territory and settled in the Miles City area…
A Woman’s Work is Never Done
The Plains Indian women’s role in the buffalo hunt was no small thing. “Theirs was harder work than buffalo hunting,” explained John C. Ewers, in...
A Collection of Criminals
Collectors knew Norman Flayderman as the man behind the bible of American firearms, Flayderman’s Guide to Antique American Firearms...and Their...
A First for Custer Firearms
The “first firearm forensically proven to have been used” at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, as the auction catalog noted, hammered down for a...
A Big Bang Year
Oliver Winchester introduced a legendary brand to the world in 1866, and in 2016, the 150th anniversary year of Winchester Repeating Arms, his brand...
On the Hunt for Buffalo Bill
The flowing locks and broad brimmed hat as William F. Cody cantered up on his horse made him “[look] like a picture of a cavalier of olden times”...
True West’s Best of the West 2017: Western Wear
Fashion was the element that brought two Yale buddies into the circle of the U.S. Geological Survey. James Terry Gardiner and Clarence King had made...
Best of the West 2017: Art & Collectibles
In the early stages of his career, William Henry Jackson, his studio borne by a mule, photographed the first views of Yellowstone. He traveled as an...
Portrait of a Mountain Man
Albert Bierstadt legitimized the Western American landscape as a serious subject, first bringing to the East and the world the majestic...
Starvation Winter
"Any time I cash in now, I win,” Charles M. Russell wrote, a few months before his death on October 24, 1926, in the introduction for his short...
No Business Like Show Business
There’s no business like show business, if you tell me it’s so. Traveling through the country is so thrilling. Standing out in front on opening...