"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
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Art, Guns and Culture
“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...
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...
Crossed Sabres
The two crossed sabres insignia, cutting edge up, marked the hats of two different cavalrymen from the beginning and the end of the Indian Wars. The...
Stay on Target When Collecting Gun Shots
How many times have you looked at an antique photo and thought, “If this old photo could only talk?” Well, they do, in a way. As a collector of...
Ethnic Fare
“Those were exciting days. A regular pageant of non-descript people, coming and going, all the time. “I have but to close my eyes to live it all...
The Functional Side of Cowboy Boots
All the men were well shod in good looking riding boots, except the cook. I learned that the boots were mostly made by a boot maker named Hyer, of...
The Best BBQ Joints in Texas
Coming from South Carolina, I arrived in Dallas in 1984 and was shocked at what they called barbecue in Texas. It wasn’t pig meat. It was beef. And...
Framing the West
In Mackay, Idaho, a rugged cowboy and his trusty steed have braved the winter weather and harsh terrain to save a tender calf, with only a beacon of...
Best Photography of the True West
Ansel Adams started with with a Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie. Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter,”...