Sold! Collectors love the Old West, and Western art, firearms and collectibles remain popular coast to coast. As the 19th century turned into the...
Best of the West: Art and Collectibles
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Art, Guns and Culture
Dude Spotting
It’s harder to spot real cowboys than you might think. In my experience, nobody looks at a photograph of a welder and says, “That’s not a...
Wyoming Cowboy Cuisine
From beef steak to bear sign donuts, the state is well-known for its bunkhouse fare. Wyoming is known as the Cowboy State, and cattle ranches dotted...
The Hawken Rifle Turns 200
Just as the Colt revolver and the Winchester rifle are icons of the post-Civil War West, one gun symbolizes the era of the fur trade. ...
A Merger, Memorabilia and McMurtry
Morphy’s acquires Brian Lebel’s Auction while Vogt Auctions gavels off a writer’s collection. All Images Courtesy Morphy’s Lebel Auctions Unless...
A Little Town with a Big Agenda
Trinidad, Colorado, won’t let go of this 115-year-old gem. Nobody’s still around to remember the “glory days”—John Philip Sousa, Sitting Bull and...
Finding Truth in All the Noise
Let’s celebrate seven decades of lively debate about our imperfect past. For the past seven decades we have been having a very lively...
Jolly Times In Iowa
A Hawkeye State minister and a basement entrepreneur changed how the world snacks. Popcorn as we know it may seem like a fairly new concept, but...
Riding for the Brand
The Prix de West in Oklahoma City celebrated cowboys and cowgirls. All Images Courtesy the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum In the years...
Ringing the Bell
For the greater good of the state, two visionary women saved a school in Nome, North Dakota. This is a story about two North...
A Moving Target
When I was a kid, the Old West was 50 years in the rearview, and today my youth is 50 years in the rearview—and—to be honest, more like 60! Yikes!...
Alaska’s Real Bonanza
In the 1890s, stampeders and sourdoughs discovered the real bonanza was from the sea. Alaska, the final frontier of the American West, was actively...