October 2001—Greg Polutanovich’s tent lies on the ground. As rain pounds down, Greg assesses the damage at the now-closed outdoor art show in...
Fighting the Elements
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Art, Guns and Culture
An American Starlet
“Cowboys don’t cry, they’d rather drink the ocean dry, they let the lonesome pedal steel, tell the world the way they feel.”—Ian Parks from the...
Talking the Legs Off a Donkey
Of all the scams coming out of the Western mining era, the one perpetrated by George Babcock wins hands down. In 1894, Babcock, who was a jovial man...
1881 Marlin Rifle
While the 1873 Winchester is often called the “gun that won the West,” this rifle certainly didn’t win it by itself. There were plenty of other good...
Double E Guest Ranch
No Jacuzzi. No swimming pool. No special vegetarian diets. No “nose to tail” horseback riding ... say, what kind of dude ranch is this, anyway?...
Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum
Mary Leighton is a scrapper when it comes to preserving our Western heritage. Let a developer threaten to bulldoze a historical building in order to...
A Pictorial Historian
George Catlin’s paintings were predicted to “grow in importance with advancing years, and when the race of which they are the representation will...
Nerves of Steel
While much has been written about Westerners’ “tricked-out” guns, a cursory review of the hardware documented to these Old West gunmen reveals that...
Silver J Western Wear
It’s been a number of years since anyone thought of San Francisco and its urbane Northern California environs as Western. But Jan Brandt discovered...
Seventh Cavalry Sells High
As Autie, he was a boy loved and cherished by his family. But history remembers George Armstrong Custer as the former “boy general” whose rash...
Wind River Historical Center
When you think of Butch Cassidy, you probably don’t imagine him as a rancher in the Dubois badlands of the upper Wind River Valley. But during the...
Country Crossover Colorado Style
Rail bending is a little known skill that was once used to derail trains, a nasty trick dating back to the Civil War. Men who succeeded in setting a...