Nowadays, Old West fans can enjoy solid, shooting replicas of the six-guns and long-arms packed by the legendary gunmen of yesteryear. While many of...
Gunslinger Guns for Today’s “Shootists”
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Features & Gunfights
Cowboy Hats and Western Boots
The two most recognizable fashion icons of the American West are selling out worldwide. Born out of necessity in the post-Civil War West, the...
Momaday’s Billy the Kid Pistola
The famed Pulitzer Prize-winning writer shares his obsession for Billy the Kid in his tale of a gun he believes the outlaw owned. This is the story...
Legendary Tilghman Goes Down
When the Law Goes Bad There’s a fine line between catching an outlaw and becoming one. Two Different Versions of the Fight Based on the research of...
Keeping the West Alive!
Western art museums paint a picture of optimism and excitement during a time of changes. “This is an ongoing question for Western art...
So-Called Cattle Kate Rises from Rubbish
Evidence points toward Ella Watson’s innocence. Cattle Kate was the only woman ever hanged in Wyoming for cattle rustling, and history long...
¿Quien es, Pete?
July 14, 1881 Billy the Kid vs. Pat Garrett Bad Moon Rising Rising at dawn, Garrett, Poe and McKinney ride “up into the hills” and scan the...
Cannibal Correspondence
The most celebrated Colorado convict was wooed and loved—despite his life sentence for eating his camping compadres. Why do some women...
Yellowstone Prevails!
In early June, Yellowstone National Park, which is celebrating its sesquicentennial year, was hit with heavy rain and fast snowmelt causing...
The Six-Million-Dollar Gun
The real story behind Pat Garrett’s infamous pistol that killed Billy the Kid In the fall of 1880, Sheriff-elect Pat Garrett was given his marching...
A Fitting Funeral for Billy the Kid
What Really Happened to El Chivato? Billy arrived at the home of Celsa and Saval Gutiérrez, where he sometimes had a siesta, instead of the Maxwell...
Spirit of the West
The founding curator filled the blank canvas of Scottsdale’s Museum of the West. Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West is making...