by Candy Moulton | Aug 15, 2018 | Features & Gunfights
Get your mule, load the wagon and let’s take a look at the best museums of the West. St. Louis, known as the Gateway to the West, takes our top museum spot this year with the long-awaited reopening of Gateway Arch National Park (formerly Jefferson National Expansion...
by Meghan Saar | Aug 7, 2018 | Collecting the West, Departments
What a difference an autograph makes. Last September, a collector successfully bid $6,500 at Cowan’s Auctions for a photograph from the Eric C. Caren Collection showing the starring actors, “Wild Bill” Hickok, “Texas Jack” Omohundro and “Buffalo Bill” Cody, of Scouts...
by | Aug 1, 2018 | True West Blog
The Younger brothers present a classic example of how the war destroyed families. If any family could be called “Rebels with a Cause,” it would be them. They were solid American frontier stock. Like many other Missourians, their roots were in Virginia....
by Henry C. Parke | Jul 30, 2018 | Features & Gunfights
Wes Studi, fresh from the success of Hostiles, appeared on the 2018 Oscars to present a movie montage highlighting military service, the 70 year old mentioned that he’d volunteered for Vietnam, and asked if anyone else had. He was met with silence. “I wasn’t...
by | Jul 18, 2018 | True West Blog
In the spring of 1877 Sergeant Jack Dunn, a government scout from Fort Bowie, was winding his way down what later became known as Tombstone Canyon in southeastern Arizona in pursuit of hostile Apache. Dunn was searching for a spring in the vicinity of Castle Rock when...