George Catlin’s paintings were predicted to “grow in importance with advancing years, and when the race of which they are the representation will...
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Art, Guns and Culture
In a Land of Extremes
Ranch wife, camp cook, cowgirl and mom, Kip Calahan also sings sweeter than a cowboy riding night watch. A resident of Southern New Mexico, she’s an...
Boot Scootin’ Boogie
Cowboy boots are pure romance, even if they’re covered in barn muck or horse manure. Designed to be totally functional, boots are also the one type...
Ruxton’s Trading Post
You’ve got to hand it to a business that gives its chief financial officer his own web page. But then the CFO of Ruxton’s Trading Post in Manitou...
Texas True
Some folks move to a new locale and do all they can to make their home look just like the one they left, but not Teresa Farish. When she and her...
One Handsome Gun
One of the most accurate arms used during the Mexican War of 1846-48 and the California gold rush was the U.S. Model 1841 Rifle, more commonly...
Long-Guns of the Gunfighters
For anyone who rode the gunpowder trail, a six-shooter wasn’t the only weapon in his arsenal. A gunfighter often had only one pull of the trigger to...
Phippen Art Museum
Artists will find a place of honor at historic Courthouse Square in downtown Prescott, Arizona. George Phippen’s namesake museum, the Phippen Art...
Down to the Last Moccasin
Although Gary Zaboly lives in the East, he asks us not to hold that against him, saying, “Frederic Remington was born in New York and died here,...
The Buffalo Hunt
Francis Parkman wrote in his journal in 1846 that “Once among the buffalo, the hunter, unless long use has made him familiar with the situation,...
Bombs Over Texas
“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” Mark Twain once said. Obviously, Samuel Langhorne Clemens never met...
Sings in Color
With a Union Pacific mileage book in hand, Frank Tenney Johnson realized his dream to travel the West by rail. When Johnson saw Pike’s Peak in the...