Innovative filmmaker Taylor Sheridan’s new series captures the grit and the glory of the trail. When True West spoke to creator Taylor Sheridan in...

Innovative filmmaker Taylor Sheridan’s new series captures the grit and the glory of the trail. When True West spoke to creator Taylor Sheridan in...
Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction in Mesa, Arizona, is always a movie collector’s paradise. All Images Courtesy Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction Unless...
His personal belongings tell a lot about the big man. The wooden crate is 8-by-8-by-8 feet. Inside the oversized box are bag after bag of unopened...
Among the most recognizable silver screen firearms, this Shiloh rifle has earned “star” status in its own right. John Wayne’s...
Brian Lebel’s 31st Old West Auction hammered out Hollywood history for avid collectors of Western memorabilia. The term “west of the...
Saving the old girl is more than a dream. Everyone wants to save “Hollywood in the Desert”—the Old Tucson Studios that hosted more than 400 films...
Marion Michael Morrison, was named for his grandfather Marion Mitchell Morrison, a Civil War veteran. They were of Irish and Scots-Irish descent. ...
John Ford and John Wayne’s classic Western film changed the course of cinema history.
In 1973, John Wayne sat inside Norman Rockwell’s studio in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, so the artist could paint a portrait of the actor. The...
The John Wayne Memorabilia exhibit in Los Angeles featured his costume trousers with sewed-on belt loops. Aren’t belt loops an early 20th-century...
John Wayne used the large-loop lever on his rifles in several movies, and TV’s Rifleman used one as early as 1958. Was it ever used in real...
Arguably, the most iconic firearm of the silver screen West is the Peacemaker Colt, with the mellow ivory-looking stocks, so often carried by John...