“Every now and then I see whirlwinds. Looking out now, I see one but as it approaches it is a band of Indians out on the ceremonial rabbit hunt....
Top Artist on the Taos Society Totem
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Collectibles
Signature Spurs
Pascal M. Kelly, born in 1886, turned out his first pair of spurs as early as 1903, in the Texas Panhandle town Childress. In 2008, one of his pairs...
How to Get Rich Buying Books
Back in 1986, while participating in an “archaeological dig” at the site of the McSween house in Lincoln, New Mexico, I first met Bob McCubbin. To...
Witness to History
The “massacre” at Wounded Knee is still contentious today. Some historians consider it a battle in which a peaceful surrender of weapons went...
Sticks and Stones Can Break Your Bank
The American West has its myths, but it is also steeped with genuine characters and events which we can identify with, even more than 200 years...
The Emperor’s Old Guns
Imagine the elevator of a posh Vegas hotel opening its doors, revealing a man holding a toilet paper torch, wearing a king-sized sheet clad around...
Charlie Russell’s Newest Painting
Charlie Russell showed off his newest painting at this year's C.M. Russell Art Auction. Impossible, you say? The esteemed cowboy artist did so...
Roadside Culture
“We call these people ‘untutored,’ and yet, to watch a desert dweller spill varicolored sands between his fingers into a magic pattern on the ground...
Trains, Mules and Horses
Chester A. Arthur is the only U.S. president to make an extensive overland march, mostly on horseback, and the first to visit Yellowstone National...
What Have You Heard, Shane?
Jack Palance played a number of roles during his long career, but the characters of Jack Wilson, the sinister gunfighter in Shane (1953), and the...
A Song of Praise for a Forgotten Folklore Collector
This book is an offering of the Indians, and I am only the recorder. Or so Natalie Curtis claimed in her groundbreaking work, The Indian’s Book,...
Wyeth Sets Record with Hickok Oil
The most famous Poker hand of all time, Aces and Eights, might have won the pot, had the gambler not gotten shot in the back of the head. Given the...