American West Archives

Best of the West 2025: Heritage Travel

by Stuart Rosebrook | Dec 20, 2024

The American West in All Its Glory Our annual favorites list celebrates destinations across the Western United States. Along blue highways to...

by | Sep 4, 2023

Never in the history of the world has there been a place like the American West. The pristine uncharted land, its natural beauty, blessed with...

by Steve Friesen | Jun 9, 2023

Twentieth-century Western landscapes dominated Heritage Auctions’ Art of the West sale. Art of the American West is often nostalgic,...

by Mike Cox | Feb 26, 2022

Discover the life of the legendary Comanche following the arrows in the Lone Star State. Quanah Parker, war chief of the last band of...

by Steve Friesen | Mar 2, 2021

HIT THE ROAD AND DISCOVER THE GRAND HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF WILLIAM CODY ACROSS THE COWBOY STATE. Will Cody and his father stood on a...

by Mike Cox | Mar 2, 2021

FOLLOW THE HISTORIC TRAILS OF THE LONE STAR LAWMAN THROUGH WEST TEXAS FROM SAN ANGELO TO EL PASO. “They are having a lively time in Tom Green...

by Stuart Rosebrook | Mar 2, 2021

ADVENTURES ACROSS THE STATE OF NEVADA LEAD TO HISTORIC SITES, OLD MINING TOWNS AND ENDLESS VISTAS. The Silver State is probably best known...

by Candy Moulton | Mar 2, 2021

ENJOY THE ADVENTURE AND HISTORICAL SITES BETWEEN ST. LOUIS AND FORT LARAMIE. When we think and write about the over- land trails, we usually...

by Peter Corbett | Mar 2, 2021

SEE HISTORICAL SITES, NATURAL WONDERS AND WELCOMING SMALL TOWNS. Arizona’s vastness and terrain—from searing deserts to alpine...

by Erik J. Wright | Mar 1, 2021

GAMBLER JOHNNY MURPHY WAS THE FACE OF AN ICONIC WESTERN PHOTO. Eight months after the murder of notorious Irish gunfighter James Leavy in front of...

by | Aug 26, 2020

In the early 1850’s Sir George Gore, a British nobleman, bestowed with enormous wealth and a thirst for adventure, decided to go on a hunting...

by John Langellier | Sep 11, 2019

A historic show honoring the West’s greatest Artist.