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Big Country, Big Art

In 1920, a young reporter for the Indianapolis News purchased his first Western painting.

Category Art of the True West, Photo Gallery Author TW Editors Date 09/25/2009
Gloomy Blumy's Beautiful World

In 1898, two sketching buddies flipped a coin to see who would take the broken wheel to the blacksmith in Taos.

Category Art of the True West Author Meghan Saar Date 11/01/2008
Sioux on the Beach

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody had been planning his next feat as a showman when, in 1883, he was asked to stage an "Old Glory Blowout" in North Platte, Nebraska.

Category Art of the True West, Photo Gallery Author Patricia Bennett Date 09/01/2008
The Taming of the Artist

The rise of Charlie Russell, and the wife who made him a star.

Category Art of the True West Author Brian Dippie Date 09/01/2008
Frank History

That our mailman didn't hoard some of the crazy packages we got from Phil Frank always surprised us.

Category Art of the True West, Photo Gallery Author Meghan Saar Date 11/01/2007
Be Like Remington

A delirious blood-covered cavalry soldier rises up. Firing his pistol, he makes a mad dash to run through the Lakota warriors.

Category Art of the True West Author Bill Markley Date 09/01/2007
Remington's Kodak Moments

Frederic Remington was a shutterbug. It's a simple fact. One of the greatest painters and sculptors of the American West was addicted to photography.

Category Art of the True West Author Brian Dippie Date 09/01/2007