You only have to look at the smirk on Sharlot Hall’s face to know she just bested nasty men who thought women didn’t belong in photos like this—the...
The Best Smirk in the West
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Shooting Back
The Real History of a Handcart When True West lands in my mailbox, I turn first to “Truth Be Known” for its wisdom and wit, then I flip to the great...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Sayings “Fear sees, even when the eyes are closed.” Quotes “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity...
Driving – and Rowing – Them Home
Driving—and Rowing—Them Home After World War II, Cowboy Artists of America co-founder George Phippen developed into one of the most sought-after...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Sayings “Be careful when you follow the masses; sometimes the M is silent.” Quotes “Life can’t defeat a writer who is in love...
Home on the Range
For four decades, former Nebraska homesteader-turned-frontier photographer Solomon D. Butcher posed homesteader families and their livestock in...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. 1883 and...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Sayings "Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still." Quotes "It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose...
Working on the Railroad
Were they employees of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad? The six men in the photo, including the four on the handcart and two with steel bars on the...
Shooting Back
Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. Along the...
Truth Be Known
Old Vaquero Saying “If you sit around a campfire long enough, everyone becomes a storyteller.” Quotes “It may be that them whose pleasure...
Deadly Gunplay
Charles M. Russell’s 1908 Smoke of a .45 captures the violent chaos caused by short tempers and whiskey on the Western frontier. Courtesy Google Art...