Lester Santos, owner of Santos Furniture in Cody, Wyoming, doesn’t build furniture. Rather, he creates works of art that just happen to be tables,...
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Art, Guns and Culture
Puttin’ the Hirt on Your Head
Tom Hirt is one of the most respected makers of cowboy hats today—with good reason. You won’t find any cookie-cutter-type headware at his...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...