April 2023

Cowboys & Indians

The Premier Magazine of the West and the Western Lifestyle!

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Contributors
An Alaska Native Tlingit tribal member, KATE NELSON (cover story, page 116) is an award-winning writer and editor based in Minneapolis. A proven leader and visionary in consumer publishing with 15-plus years of experience, she is currently the editor
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The Four R’s Of Spring
Robin Williams had a way of cutting to the comedic chase. “Spring,” he once said, “is nature’s way of saying ‘Let’s party.’” And why not? Everything is roaring back to life, and we’re filled with the energy of potential. Rebirth, renewal, restoration
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Letters
On Think Like A Horse… Thank you for featuring the book Think Like a Horse by Grant Golliher. Everyone on the planet should be reading this book. It should be a middle school requirement for all students. The world would be a much better place if eve
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Bradley Chance Hays
Bradley Chance Hays is a man earnestly following several dreams at once. As both a cowboy and an artist, he was almost destined to wear at least a couple of hats. Born in Oklahoma to an art teacher mother and a rodeo cowboy father, Hays took up calf
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Kindred Spirits
It’s not often that people living an ocean apart build a lasting friendship — not through any formal alliance, but through simple, heartfelt gratitude. It’s even more unusual for them to seal their friendship with a monument commemorating an act of g
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National Roper’s Supply (NRS)
Originally named David’s Western Store after owner and founder David Isham, National Roper’s Supply (NRS) and the Isham family have called Decatur home since 1989. NRS started as a small supply store but has expanded into multiple stores across the s
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Boot Store Of The Stockyards
The folks at family-owned Fenoglio Boot Company are no strangers to brick-and-mortar stores, nor are they strangers to the Fort Worth Stockyards. So it made a lot of business and geographic sense when they opened the Boot Store of the Stockyards. In
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Lone Pine Film Festival
“You can’t see vistas like this anywhere in the world… you can’t meet people like this anywhere in the world.” So said longtime Lone Pine Film Festival fan Bryan Marr, returning to the small California town at the foot of the Eastern Sierra that has
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Happy Trails
DON EDWARDS was a widely recognized and much-admired cowboy musician and historian who was nominated for two Grammys, named Best Male Performer by the Western Music Association, and honored with eight Wrangler Awards from the National Cowboy and West
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Norma Howard
The scene is bucolic and soothing. A Native American woman sits on the grass, a basket full of wild onions in her lap as two children sit with her, their faces intent on what she is doing. The colors are rich and warm, and the faces in the painting a
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Laurie Kersey
Conveying a horse’s mindset is the particular forte of Laurie Kersey’s, whose impressionist equine paintings often juxtapose finessed portrayals of horses in the foreground with minimalist landscapes bordering on tonalism in the background. “For me,
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Huge 2-Day Public Auction - March 18th & 19th - Waco, Texas
Day one, March 18th, 2023 at 10 A.M. of this Two-Day Auction will consist of Firearms that will include a large collection of Colt Revolvers, some engraved and Old West Items from the late Paul Chapman Estate. A rare Book titled “Billy the Kid” by Pa
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COWBOYS & THEIR CROWNS
Dustin Noblitt doesn’t mind all the stares he gets while traveling throughout the country. His job fies him to the biggest cities in the United States for meetings, conferences, and events, and his cowboy hat turns plenty of heads. Raised in Californ
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Sundowner
I had never heard of the concept of a “sundowner” — where you pull up to an abundant spread of cocktails and snacks in a jaw-dropping spot — until I went on my first safari in the Serengeti. It was so fabulous that I vowed then and there to bring the
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Art Calendar
This exhibition comprises artwork from an invitational group of leading contemporary artists whose muse is the equine. Among the artists included are Sophy Brown, Jill Soukup, Booth Malone, Matt Flint, Sandy Graves, Rox Corbett, and Shawn Cameron. Cu
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Rodeo Superman Trevor Brazile
Trevor Brazile sits high on his horse with rope in hand on a billboard on the outskirts of Decatur, a historic Friday Night Lights town in North Texas known for rodeo legends. Brazile is one of them. A team, tie-down, and steer roper, he’s won more w
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Ride HYER EST. 1875
The story goes that in 1875 in Kansas, a terminus for the busy cattle drives of the era, a cowboy was just coming off his latest cattle drive with a fresh paycheck in his pocket when he strolled into bootmaker C.H. Hyer’s shop in Olathe, Kansas, and
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Ryan Bingham Rising
Ryan Bingham is finally having some fun. Don’t get me wrong — the 42-year-old musician and actor has always had a roll-with-the-punches kind of attitude. It’s just that life has thrown him more than his fair share of punches. These days, he’s feeling
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Hoofbeats Of History
IF YOU’RE NOT THE TYPE WHO PUTS STOCK IN CONCEPTS LIKE fate or providence, OK. Absent that, though, the only way to make sense of the story of Mark Nutsch is by calling it one of the craziest — and most fortunate — coincidences in the annals of milit
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The Flight Of Red Bird
It would stand to reason, given the deep-rooted bias against her race and her sex, that a Sioux Indian girl born into late-Victorian, predominantly white America might have little to no chance for growth and fame. Nonetheless, against all odds, the w
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Nomadland Kenya
I live in Montana, where, though certainly we have cattle, we have even more land. More grass than cows. Other than our nine months of winter, this is heaven for grazing animals. Once, and not too long ago, there were buffalo all up and down the Rock
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IN THE BUNK HOUSE with RED STEAGALL
Red Steagall: In most parts of our cow country we’re getting to a point where water is a real thing to consider every day. And I always say that our agricultural community is our most important asset because it doesn’t make any difference what we do
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Morganton, North Carolina ARTIMUS PYLE
C&I: We know you’ve been as busy as ever touring with the Artimus Pyle Band. But we’ve heard that you’ve also been working on a new project — a tribute to the music of your former band, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Artimus Pyle: That’s right. A tribute to the mus

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