On Friday, April 8, 1892, Ben Jones and Bill Walker rode down out of the Bighorn Mountains. They had been trapping for weeks. Ben Jones was a cook in cowboy […]
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Tim McCoy and The Covered Wagon: the Birth of a Movie Star
When Tim McCoy was eight years old, his father took him to a showing of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Tim dated his desire to be a Westerner from that point. […]
Parts of a Western Saddle and the Variations
Wedged under almost every cowboy that attempted to tame the frontier was a saddle. The culmination of craftsmanship and practicality, the western saddle is a key piece in the evolution of saddles. In the […]
Views from Yonder: Outside Perspectives of the Wild West
What do you picture when you think of the Wild West? Do you see tumbleweeds drifting through a small town? The bucking bronco on the Wyoming license plate? Or does a gunslinging video game series or old western movie come to mind? The Wild West is no longer a location or […]
Western Treasures: Illustrated Letters from Charles M. Russell
Charles Marion Russell first travelled west to Montana in 1880 and secured a job as a night wrangler shortly thereafter. This job afforded him the opportunity to observe, document, and […]
Jordan B. Cottle Scrapbook
I am excited to share the Jordan B. Cottle scrapbook with the world. It is full of amazing images and stories of the many peoples and facets that made up […]