Art During Pandemics: Then and Now COVID-19 has put the American West art world in a new nightmare.
The time: November 1918 to January 1919 during the Spanish influenza pandemic. The place: Great Falls, Montana. The artist: Charles M. Russell. The cost: An estimated 675,000 American lives and at least 50 million across the world. Today, COVID-19 has put the American...
Following the Tracks of the Kansas Pacific
The American West and American rail-roads are filled with myths and legends. Some of them have been debunked, or at least questioned—like William F. Cody’s reputed buffalo-hunting contest against William Comstock near present-day Oakley, Kansas. Others are generally...
Studying History is One Thing; Walking History is Another
An ox shoe. A square nail. A kitchen knife. An 1840s dime. A grave. Those are some of the precious things found by members of Trails West as they explore, find, mark and teach about the old pioneer trails that brought 400,000 people through the West in the “great...
Virgil Returns
In 1895, Virgil and Allie returned to Prescott, Arizona Territory, after living in Colton, California, and spending time in Colorado. Prescott had always been Allie’s favorite place. Soon after their arrival, Virgil partnered with W.H. Harlon in a lease of the Grizzly...
True West January/February 2025
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