Jake Snively Jake Snively is relatively unknown in Arizona history today but for a time he was one of its most important citizens...
Jake Snively is relatively unknown in Arizona history today but for a time he was one of its most important citizens. He came west to Texas in 1835, just as the Revolution was getting underway. He was an educated man, trained as a civil engineer and came to work as a...
Western Masters Remain Strong
Despite the challenges of dealing with social distancing and all the other new requirements that came in the wake of the global pandemic, the Scottsdale Art Auction, held on June 13, 2020, continued as it had in previous years. In short, the auction remained an...
First Peoples, Original View
Following in the footsteps of the early 19th-century artists, photographers began to travel the West and record the places and people they encountered. One group of Westerners that fascinated and attracted the image-makers were America’s Indigenous peoples, who...
Zebulon Pike’s Life on the Mississippi
If William Clark and Meriwether Lewis are the Yankees and Dodgers of American West explorers, then Zebulon Montgomery Pike has to be the St. Louis Cardinals. I can’t believe I just wrote that. I hate the Yankees, and I rarely root for the post-Brooklyn Dodgers or the...
True West March/April 2025
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