On January 25-26, 2019, in Mesa, Arizona, Brian Lebel’s Old West Auctions will oversee the auction of the Robert G. McCu…
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Portrait of a Mountain Man An artist famous for his majestic Rocky Mountain landscapes may have painted a likeness of Jim Bridger.
Albert Bierstadt legitimized the Western American landscape as a serious subject, first bringing to the East and the wor…
A House Divided The top-selling political collectible at Heritage Auctions recalls the contested 1860 Presidential election.
Abraham Lincoln said precisely the wrong words in 1858, but standing by his famous speech landed him in precisely the ri…
Trail of Horses Edward Borein strikes a high note at one of the nation’s top cowboy collectibles auctions.
When Edward Borein died in 1945, he left on his easel an unfinished oil depicting cattle at a watering hole, with a grou…
Swashbuckler to Scam Artist A mysterious poster featuring Pancho Villa sells at vintage movie poster auction.
A man first deemed to be a swashbuckler quickly spiraled into a scam artist. That man, Dr. Charles A. Pryor, stands next…
Burlesque Baseball A funny slice of baseball history emerges from Cowan’s American History auction.
The silver mining camp of Silver City, New Mexico, took all of three years after its founding to form its first baseball…
Best of the West 2016: Art & Collectibles Cowboy History on the Auction Block
“Now began the real work….Rawhide ‘riatas’ were taken down, and a man rode into the bunch swinging the loop round …
Hugh Glass’s Deadly Journey The mountain man’s life-ending link to Fort Union.
In the winter of 1833, ten years after Hugh Glass was attacked by a grizzly and left for dead, the mountain man took a m…
Rifle and Pen The top lot goes to a painting of an adventurer journalist who recorded some of the first news of the frontier West.
“Pard” made perfect sense as a nickname for Robert Strahorn. After his newspaper work as the first civilian corres…
A Gutsy Winter Soldier Morris Cooper Foote was one hardcore soldier who didn’t quit when the going got tough.
Morris Cooper Foote, a soldier who experienced firsthand numerous moments that shaped America’s frontier history and set…