Art, Guns and Culture
Carved in Wood

Carved in Wood

Western folk art gems were the highlight of Bonhams Skinner’s “American History in Wood.”  All Images Courtesy Bonhams Skinner    ...

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Action Jackson

Action Jackson

The day I met a living legend     On February 25, 2006, I got to have breakfast with a living legend. Joaquin Jackson, Texas Ranger and...

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Print the Legend

Print the Legend

Mass media dominates Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction in Mesa, Arizona.  When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” a newspaperman famously said...

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Bar None

Bar None

The long-gone bars, honky-tonks and saloons I grew up in are more than memories. When I was on the women’s panel at the Tucson Festival of Books...

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Kingman Kin

Kingman Kin

  Here’s a classic film story that involves my hometown, Kingman, the Hotel Beale and my shirttail kin. As the story goes, Buster Keaton was...

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