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...
Long-Guns of the Gunfighters
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Art, Guns and Culture
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...
Two Fingers, Straight Up
There’s something special about a man who likes to dress the way he drinks, keeping the same brand, no matter where he goes. These days, that’s a...
Bird’s-eye View of 19th-century Mining
If a miner wrote back East of his adventures, he may have sealed his message inside a pictorial lettersheet depicting a bird’s-eye view of the...
All This Way for the Short Ride
So, you’ve never heard of Tom Russell? Join the club. Songwriters, unlike performers, are often unknown. Tom Russell is a cult figure around the...
Kirk Ratajesak
Fretting is something most of us try to avoid. Kirk Ratajesak, of Seattle, Washington, on the other hand, has made fretting his life’s work. But...
Mojave Drums
Loretta Veach, founder and owner of Mojave Drums in Meadview, Arizona, says “rhythm is something that all people have inside them.” And she’s...
Patton’s Peacemaker Blazes Again
At the dawn of the age of automatic pistols, young Lt. George S. Patton relied on reverse technology when he used his famed ivory-stocked, 1873...