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Shaken, Stirred and Strong
When San Francisco was known as the Barbary Coast, Jerry Thomas earned the nickname “Father of the Cocktail” at the Occidental Hotel, where legend has it he invented the martini and entertained patrons...
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Cowan’s Auction
Regular viewers of PBS readily recognize Wes Cowan from Antiques Road Show and History Detectives. Back in the late 1970s, Wes toiled away on his B.A. and M.A. in anthropology from the University of...
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Guns That Won the West
The old saw about guns that “won the West” may be overstated, yet undoubtedly, armament did play a major role in frontier expansion along with the railroad, stagecoaches and other 19th- century...
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The Old Pueblo’s Historic Cuisine
According to a notice in the July 22, 1888, Arizona Daily Star, the U.S. Army families stationed at Fort Lowell in Tucson, Arizona Territory, choosing to dine at the local Occidental Restaurant on...
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A Collector Like No Other
As a historian, Douglas McChristian tirelessly worked to identify the original owners or origins of the items in his military collection. Of course, he’d become one of the frontier’s most ardent...
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C.M. Russell Rides Again
The 1895 watercolor Indian Scout exceeded the high estimate of $375,000, selling for $409,500 with buyer’s premium. — All Images Courtesy C.M. Russell Museum Unless Otherwise Noted — On March 23, 2019,...
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Moran Masterpiece Tops in Scottsdale
Thomas Moran’s (1837-1926) Castle Rock, Green River, WY (1907), a 20-x-30-inch oil on canvasestimated at $3.5 to $4.5 million, sold for $2.75 million, the high-water mark of the auction.— All images...
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1911 Pistol Goes Western
Although we don’t generally think of the 1911 semi-auto pistol as a Western firearm, it certainly saw lots of use out West in the first decades of the 20th century. Western film fans may recall its...
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The Western Auction of the Year
Dubbed the “Fort Worth Five,” a large, impressive silver print by Swartz of Fort Worth, Texas, taken in 1900 after a lucrative robbery in Nevada, went to a buyer for $100,000, which was the low end of...
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Rattlesnakes
Mohave green rattlesnake. It’s the time of year when rattlesnakes are coming out of their dens after a long winter siesta. This time of the year they’re more likely to be out during the day. As the...
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