Charlie Russell was a man’s man. He painted buffalo hunts, Indian warfare and cowboys roping steers, like in the 1898 watercolor that sold as the...
A Ladies’ Man
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Meghan Saar
Baseball’s Gateway to the West
The first baseball game played west of the Mississippi happened at Lafayette Park in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 9, 1860, between the Cyclones and...
Viva Villa!
When Mexican Revolution Gen. Francisco “Pancho” Villa sat on his ornate silver saddle, he probably did not envision that the six-year-old son of a...
Debbie Sells Out
A few months prior to finding out she would have to liquidate her collection of movie memorabilia—the largest private collection of its kind Debbie...
A River of Returns
“It is a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return,” reviewed The...
Nampeyo’s Legacy
“I want to continue the traditional methods and designs,” Tonita Hamilton Nampeyo said. “I don’t want to deviate from what my mom [Fannie Polacca]...
Judgment of Paris
I bet Harry Jackson would have been happy to find out artworks from his estate were sold at the prestigious Coeur d’Alene Art Auction in Reno,...
What’s It Like to Live There—Topeka, Kansas
As we commemorate the Civil War, all eyes should also look to Topeka, where, in 1855, Free State delegates assembled to draft a constitution that...
Billy the Kid Stays in the States!
The holy grail of Old West photos is now on “Billionaire’s Row” in Palm Beach, Florida, with oilman William Koch, who won his $2 million bid for a...
Llano, Texas
Families of foxes and armadillos sometimes dart across Patty Schneider Pfister’s backyard. Llano, Texas—population 3,232—is not quite the frontier...
Plains Indian Shirt Sets New World Record
“I felt like crying, for the sacred hoop was broken and scattered. The life of the people was in the hoop, and what are many little lives if the...
Nocturnes Hit Million-Dollar Marks
The moonlit views the artist saw from his skiff as he paddled near his retreat, Inglenook Island, inspired Frederic Remington’s first nighttime...