The question frequently comes up, are the guns used by the participants at the Gunfight behind the O.K. Corral in museum…
Tag: Collecting the West
Norman Rockwell’s Duke Magazine cover art that turned into a million-dollar sale.
In 1973, John Wayne sat inside Norman Rockwell’s studio in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, so the artist could paint a portr…
History in Ink “Provenance” and “autograph” can equal a higher value for Old West photographs.
What a difference an autograph makes. Last September, a collector successfully bid $6,500 at Cowan’s Auctions for a phot…
Custer’s Last Strand Custer scholars and buffs find treasures among Glen Swanson’s Battle of the Little Big Horn relics.
Custer’s Last Strand” made news around the nation after links of the controversial cavalry commander’s curly blond hair …
Romance and the Buffalo Hunt The lady Charles M. Russell would wed improved his study and treatment of frontier buffalo hunts.
Nancy Cooper clearly fired up Charles M. Russell’s imagination when they met in 1895 (a year later, 32-year-old Charlie …
Monkey Business A million-dollar sale at Brian Lebel’s proves collecting the Old West attracts more wealth than a monkey riding a goat.
A half-scale saddle that advertised Buffalo Bill’s Wild West act of a monkey riding a goat was among the top historical …
Million-Dollar Cowboys Collectors are focusing on a rare and unusual subject for William R. Leigh oils.
Thomas Moran was alive today, he would be surprised to hear that his former pupil reached the million dollar auction mar…
The Wretched Newspaper War A shocking sale of photographs illustrates how the press fueled a notorious Indian massacre.
A profit-making enterprise that ended up documenting history may make one’s stomach queasy—especially when a complete pi…
Hunka, Hunka Burnin’ Iron Elvis Presley’s firearms set world records.
Two days before The Guardian published its exposé, “Can’t Help Falling in Price,” about how the deaths of Baby Boomers h…
She’s So Money Sacagawea and her sculptor on coin bring riches to the auction block.
Sacagawea played a major role in the success of the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United…