Meghan Saar
Stories by Meghan Saar
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.
Centennial Winchester Sells High
Before he charged San Juan Hill with his Rough Riders, a 22-year-old Theodore Roosevelt ordered his first Winchester.
History, Not For Sale
"BC&SK Yard Sale" stated the subject line of an e-mail sent to me from Daniel Buck.
Top Artist on the Taos Society Totem
Oscar Berninghaus's work, The Pueblos Await the Dancers, set an auction record for the artist.
Kingsville, Texas
The first to begin the dream of taming the Wild Horse Desert was Capt. Richard King.
Whiskey Rows
At 47, merchant Philip Drachman teamed his freight overland from Yuma, Arizona, by mule train before the Southern Pacific reached his home base in Tucson in 1880.
Signature Spurs
Pascal M. Kelly, born in 1886, turned out his first pair of spurs as early as 1903, in the Texas Panhandle town Childress.
Dodge City, Kansas
A barrel of whiskey kick-started this frontier burg.
Witness to History
The massacre at Wounded Knee is still contentious today.
The Emperor's Old Guns
Collector Arnie Chernoff outshines even the infamous James brothers.