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The Tunstalls Return

The Tunstalls Return

by | Sep 25, 2010 | Inside History

You could call the visit a “belated family reunion.” Five members of a proper English family gathered in a New Mexico canyon in July 2010 on an oppressively hot day, quite unlike the 70-ish summer climate of the United Kingdom. The visitors were uncomfortable, but not...
Outerwear Out West

Outerwear Out West

by | Sep 25, 2010 | Art, Guns and Culture

“A genuine mountaineer is a…kind of sui genus, an oddity, both in dress, language and appearance, from the rest of mankind.” “Associated with nature in her most simple forms by habit and manner of life, he gradually learns to despise the...
Custer & the War Between the States

Custer & the War Between the States

by | Sep 25, 2010 | Features & Gunfights

Montana artist Edgar S. Paxson’s painting Custer’s Last Stand is a gripping depiction of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn. Yet unknown to most viewers, another battle lurks behind this oil on canvas: a battle between the Montana Historical Society in Helena and...
Saving the Wrong Guys

Saving the Wrong Guys

by | Jul 17, 2010 | Features & Gunfights

Many classic Westerns feature the timeworn device of the last-minute cavalry rescue. The baddies are Indians, besieging a wagon train or surrounding a mixed group of stranded stagecoach passengers. Just when things appear bleakest, in ride the boys in blue, guidons...
Saving the Wrong Guys

Saving the Wrong Guys

by | Jul 17, 2010 | Features & Gunfights

Many classic Westerns feature the timeworn device of the last-minute cavalry rescue. The baddies are Indians, besieging a wagon train or surrounding a mixed group of stranded stagecoach passengers. Just when things appear bleakest, in ride the boys in blue, guidons...