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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...
From Baxter Black to the Powwow Idol

From Baxter Black to the Powwow Idol

by | Jul 4, 2010 | Travel & Preservation

For your reading pleasure: 137 performances you can sink your teeth into, plus chow to fill your tummy, bookstores to get lost in and rivers to float on while you’re in town. You can’t beat that with a stick. Baxter Black Baxter Black famously, and poetically, said:...