Meghan Saar


Stories by Meghan Saar

Rock Island's Rare Rig

Severs is a well-known name in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and a holster rig tied to that family has set a world record.

Category Collecting the West Author Meghan Saar Date 07/01/2007
Virginia City, Montana

Virginia City became the capital of Montana Territory in 1865 after the gold strike at nearby Alder Gulch.

Category What's it Like to Live There? Author Meghan Saar Date 07/01/2007
Casa de Adobe

If not for Mark Twain's love of the Mississippi River, an artist who would come to be known for his mission oils and nocturnal adobe scenes may never have made it to California.

Category Collecting the West Author Meghan Saar Date 06/01/2007
Cheyenne, Wyoming

Citizens of Cheyenne definitely know what it takes to "Live the Legend."

Category What's it Like to Live There? Author Meghan Saar Date 06/01/2007
Taos Founders Top Auction

For Eanger I. Couse, life seemed to begin in 1887. He found romance and learned of a place from which his future work would gain its most notoriety.

Category Collecting the West Author Meghan Saar Date 05/01/2007
Collecting the West Roundup

Hidden among Picassos, Duchamps and Matisses collected by Earl Horter is a fire-hardened buffalo hide shield with an antelope hide strap sling.

Category Collecting the West Author Meghan Saar Date 05/01/2007
Juneau, Alaska

Juneau, Alaska's mining heritage stretches from 1880 when a Tlingit chief directed Richard Harris and Joe Juneau to gold deposits.

Category What's it Like to Live There? Author Meghan Saar Date 05/01/2007
Not a Leg to Stand On

Before the Wild West Show, the Victorian taste for the grotesque was satisfied by circus sideshow acts.

Category Collecting the West Author Meghan Saar Date 04/01/2007