“In his Kachina Painter, Mr. Couse represents a modern Indian painting on a wall one of the sacred symbols of his ancestors. “There is a hint of...
Celebration of Non-Indian, Indian Art
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Art, Guns and Culture
C.M. Russell’s Illustrated Colt
For Charlie Russell’s funeral on October 27, 1926, a pistol and rig, along with his chaps, were draped over Dexter, the cowboy artist’s favorite...
Forget The Alamo
Everybody has been talking about Alamo movies this year, but they keep forgetting the best of the bunch. Actor Fess Parker’s death led every Baby...
A Cowboy Classic is Created
Did you know that the world’s best-known “cowboy six-shooter,” the 1873 Colt Single Action Army (SAA), started its career as a military sidearm,...
A Cowboy Classic is Created
Did you know that the world’s best-known “cowboy six-shooter,” the 1873 Colt Single Action Army (SAA), started its career as a military sidearm,...
A Cure for Baldness?
For centuries, bread has been a food staple. “I got six loaves of bread for a quarter at a bakery, and a bucket of syrup at a grocery...I would dip...
A Cure for Baldness?
For centuries, bread has been a food staple. “I got six loaves of bread for a quarter at a bakery, and a bucket of syrup at a grocery...I would dip...
The Genesis of Jeans
"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have...
The Genesis of Jeans
"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have...
“He’s No Parlor Car Artist”
“Remington, Russell and Leigh were once as familiar to the art world as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms to musicians, or Tinker, Evers and Chance to...
“He’s No Parlor Car Artist”
“Remington, Russell and Leigh were once as familiar to the art world as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms to musicians, or Tinker, Evers and Chance to...
Lone Star Vodka
“Texas vodka? Man, that doesn’t even go together.” That was the reaction Tito Beveridge—yes, that’s his name—got when he started trying to peddle...