A.C. Lyles, 93 years young, vividly recalls the Western movies he grew up watching. But Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson or Fred Thomson didn’t bring him to...
Paramount’s Golden Boy
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Art, Guns and Culture
Gary Ernest Smith
Gary Ernest Smith can often be found creating artworks in his Highland, Utah, studio, or out in the vast, open spaces. “I like the challenge,” Smith...
Head Over Heels
“These boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do. One of these days, these boots are gonna walk all over you.” –”These Boots are...
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...
Hardin’s Deadly Tools
We’ve long held a fascination for the gunmen of the Wild West, and firearms enthusiasts have been especially interested in the hardware used by...
MARK SUBLETTE
The owner of Medicine Man Gallery (in Tucson, Arizona, and Santa Fe, New Mexico), Mark Sublette specializes in early Western and Indian paintings....
LESLIE BAKER
Leslie Baker is the editor-in-chief of Persimmon Hill Magazine, published by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City,...
JUNI FISHER
Juni Fisher’s evocative songwriting, soulful singing and dedication to Western cowboy music earned her the highest accolade of her peers in 2011,...
DON CUSIC
This premier historian of Country music is the editor of The Western Way Magazine, published by the Western Music Association And an author (his...
CHARLIE SEEMANN
The executive director of the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada, which hosts the prestigious National Cowboy Poetry Gathering every January....
CARIN MARI
The lead singer for Carin Mari & Pony Express, Carin Mari was featured on Michael Martin Murphey’s album Tall Grass & Cool Water. South...
BILLY GOES BIG
The sale sent shockwaves throughout the Western collectibles community. No photograph of an outlaw had ever brought this kind of money ($80,000 is...