Our team’s quest to capture Crazy Horse’s visage was a bear. There are no known photographs of Crazy Horse. Yes, there are several...
Crazy Hunt
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Art, Guns and Culture
Western Roundup: June 2022
Gold Rush Days Sidney, NE, June 10-12: Experience the Black Hills gold rush of 1876 through skits, re-enactments and cowboy lore about the town’s...
Winchester’s 1876 Mountie Carbine
When it was introduced at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition of 1876, Winchester’s Centennial Model was the largest and the most powerful...
Making a Good Impression in the West
With the rise of photography in the second half of the 19th century, art no longer needed to be a visual record. One result was the...
A Flood of Fakes
The silverwork is perfect, the turquoise is spectacular, so is the price tag, but after all, this was made by a Native American and will be a...
Texas’s Tangy Thirst Quencher
The origin story of the Lone Star State’s Dr. Pepper is legendary. Texas and beef go together like chips and salsa. And while Texas is known for its...
Ditch the Derby
One of the problems Bat Masterson has in terms of his Old West legend is he is typecast as a city slicker, always wearing a derby. But the real Bat...
Western Roundup: May 2022
Wyatt Earp Days (Pictured) Tombstone, AZ, May 27-28: In honor of famed Tombstone lawman Wyatt Earp, activities include gunfights, a chili cook-off...
The Beehive State
Utah has been a leader in apiary science for crop pollination and honey production for over 150 years. Honey is nature’s sugar, and...
Gold Mines, Photos and Fakes
Navigating the pitfalls of collecting historic photographs is not for the faint of heart. The sale at auction of a tintype of Billy the Kid...
Gobsmacked!
Thanks to the late, great Gus Walker (“The Mapinator”), you are about to experience the very best step by step, blow-by-blow maps and visuals...
Eat a Peach
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Oklahoma became one of the nation’s leaders in peach and stone fruit production. Fruit is not exactly the...