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The Taming of the Artist

The Taming of the Artist

by | Sep 1, 2008 | Art, Guns and Culture

The rise of Charlie Russell, and the wife who made him a star. This triumphant moment had all begun with a marital spat, Nancy liked to say. Charlie had accepted a commission in 1897 to paint little watercolors on 125 menus for a Christmas dinner at the Park Hotel in...
Devil Canyon Shoot-Out

Devil Canyon Shoot-Out

by | Aug 1, 2008 | Inside History

APRIL 9, 1905 Navajo County Sheriff Chet Houck and his deputy Pete Pemberton hop a train from Winslow, Arizona, to Canyon Diablo (Devil Canyon), 26 miles west of Winslow. A saloon robbery the night before at Winslow’s Wigwam Saloon netted two suspects less than $300....
The West’s Best Saloons

The West’s Best Saloons

by | Aug 1, 2008 | Travel & Preservation

I’m sitting in some waterin’ hole with Sherry Monahan. She’s the popular historian, author of Tombstone’s Treasure and The Wicked West, a woman with a passion for boozers, cruisers, gamblers and saloons. Lots of saloons. There’s only one reason she’d be in a dramshop...
Dodge City, Kansas

Dodge City, Kansas

by | Aug 1, 2008 | Travel & Preservation

A barrel of whiskey kick-started this frontier burg. The first business that opened on the site of Dodge City was George M. Hoover’s and John McDonald’s saloon built of sod and boards. The partners opened their saloon on June 17, 1872, and sold “red eye” whiskey for...
Fred King

Fred King

by | Jul 1, 2008 | True Westerners

The most expensive boots ever were a pair we made out of American Alligator, sporting gold leaf inlays with diamonds and rubies and going for $45K. I don’t think you’d want to rustle any cattle in those babies. Lucchese lasted 125 years thanks to the appreciation and...