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 […]
“I was born here, in this place that would come to be called the Old West. But, to my kind, the land was ageless. It had no beginning and no […]
Originally published in Points West magazine in Fall 2008 Annie Oakley embroidered pillow cover This linen pillow cover was embroidered by Annie Oakley over the signatures of Wild West performers […]
Originally published in Points West magazine in Winter 2007 Sharpshooter’s glass target ball Sharpshooters in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West used clay rather than glass target balls because broken glass in the […]
Decades before the famous—or infamous—videos began appearing showing Bad Girls Being Naughty, another bevy of beauties became known worldwide for their exploits. They were classy, brassy, sassy, and sexy to […]
Before global tours and music festivals, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody and his Wild West extravaganza introduced the world to an unrivaled spectacle of cowboys and cowgirls, sharpshooters, Indians, exotic […]