The American West—and Western art—have always been about change. The same can be said about Western art museums. The 201…
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Traditions of the West Discover the best of our collective Western culture in the exhibits of the top museums of 2019.
Museums are recognizing, celebrating and interpreting the traditions of the American West through exhibits that are anyt…
Surviving the Ride on the Jackass Mail Crossing the desert proved an ordeal passengers could never forget.
A San Antonio and San Diego Mail Line (the Jackass Mail) ad stated: “Passengers and Express matter forwarded in new coac…
Butterfield’s Grand Adventure “Remember Boys, Nothing on God’s Earth Should Stop the United States Mail”
John W. Butterfield’s highly anticipated moment in the sun lost its luster quickly. In Tipton, Missouri, he had planned …
Death of a Cowboy, the Birth of a Legend The final, fateful days of John Ringo
“The sheriff’s posse returned from the pursuit of the Earp party yesterday evening at 5 o’clock. The bronzed and weather…
The Best of Butch’s Wild Bunch How the real outlaws who rode and robbed from Montana to Bolivia became cinema heroes.
Odds are, you wouldn’t be reading this if not for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid—Academy Award winner, 1969’s box-of…
Queen of the Wild Bunch Ethel “Etta” Place and the Sundance Kid’s outlaw love affair
According to one of the many legends of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Etta Place in South America, two men and one…
A Legend is Born How a Pennsylvania Kid went West, became the Sundance Kid and joined Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch
The Sundance Kid, whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, is inextricably linked to the better-known Butch Cassidy,…
Butch & Sundance & Pike & Dutch How two films from the summer of ’69 changed Westerns forever.
Every period picture, consciously or not, reflects two periods, the time in which the story is set, and the time the fil…
Billy the Tintype The facts behind the only existing image of the American outlaw weave a story of intrigue and mystery.
“He is, in all, quite a handsome looking fellow.” That was the opinion of a newspaperman fortunate enough to obtain an i…