by Ron Lesser | Sep 28, 2017 | Departments, What History Has Taught Me
The poster I love the most, out of the more than 100 movie and television show posters I have created, is the one for 1973’s High Plains Drifter, which, today, is considered an iconic poster. The best advice I ever received came from the great teacher of painting,...
by | Sep 27, 2017 | True West Blog
The “Queen of the Western Gamblers” was Alice Ivers. She was both gambler and madam. She also had a religious side, closing her brothel on Sundays where she taught Sunday school lessons to her girls in the parlor where the other six days of the week were...
by Bob Boze Bell | Sep 22, 2017 | Classic Gunfights, Departments
May 10, 1871 Tracking a party of rough hombres, Alameda County Sheriff Harry Morse and San Jose Deputy Theodore “Sam” Winchell approach a ranch house in California’s Saucelito Valley, near St. Mary’s Peak. Reining up outside a rock corral, they dismount and ask a...
by | Sep 22, 2017 | True West Blog
For a brief time in early 1862 Confederate troops occupied what would soon become the Territory of Arizona. This was part of a grand Confederate plan to occupy New Mexico and open a path to California that would make the South an ocean to ocean power. The so-called...
by Meghan Saar | Sep 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
A profit-making enterprise that ended up documenting history may make one’s stomach queasy—especially when a complete picture of how that happened is explored. An album of Wounded Knee photographs was both shocking in its hammer price ($22,000 at Cowan’s Auctions, on...