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Presidents and Native Peoples
Both progress and injustice define the complicated history of official policy toward American Indians. Thirty years before he became the first president of the United States, George Washington already...
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Presidents and the West
Throughout American history, the men occupying the highest office in the land have looked west to the future. While campaigning for the presidential election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln was asked to write...
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Presidential Places
Road tripping in the West? Honor past presidents at these stops. Theodore Roosevelt National Park Medora, North Dakota The park preserves three areas of rugged badlands in southwestern North Dakota....
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Art Gallery: Tim Cox
It’s a rare person who knows what they want out of life at a young age and never looks back. Tim Cox is one of the few. Having drawn since he could hold a pencil, the acclaimed Western artist was a...
View ArticleCimarron Sounds, Vol. 4
Cowboy artist Charlie Russell proclaimed the West dead before his own death in 1926. Almost 100 years later, singer-songwriter cowboy philosopher RW Hampton begs to differ. Editor's Note: Cimarron...
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BreyerFest Goes Virtual July 10 – 12
A 3-day $50 ticket includes the 2020 Breyer Model Celebration Horse. If your first horse was a plastic one, chances are you’re already a big fan of Breyer. And you’ll be excited to learn that the...
View ArticleSam Shepard’s New Mexico
The late icon’s travelogues are paired with Ed Ruscha’s photos in a new book. In the introduction for the new book Sam Shepard New Mexico, writer-director Taylor Sheridan makes an observation about the...
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What’s Doin’ in Cheyenne?
Cheyenne Frontier Days has been canceled this year, but you can still get your rodeo fix July 17 – 26 during Cheyenne Days, Legendary Nights. Cheyenne Frontier Days will have to wait out the 2020...
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Art Gallery: Michael Cassidy’s Far West
Western dime-novel covers as fine art? It’s not such a stretch for Michael Cassidy, whose new one-man show, Far West, at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, is painterly, with pulp. “I had seen some...
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Touring the Booth
We join executive director Seth Hopkins for an exclusive tour of the award-winning Booth Western Art Museum. Where do you find the best art museum in the country? Not just the best Western museum — the...
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James and the Giant Art Collection
Curator of art Emily Kapes takes C&I on a special tour of the James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art. There’s a love story behind the James Museum. Love of a couple for each other. Love of...
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Get Dressed! Fashion Takes The Runway During Virtual Indian Market in August
We’re previewing the much-anticipated SWAIA Virtual Fashion Show and going behind the scenes with featured designer Orlando Dugi, one of the hottest names in Indigenous fashion. Around this time of...
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Art of the Weave
The “home town” featured in Ben and Erin Napier’s hit show on HGTV, Laurel, Mississippi, is also the home of a treasure trove of American Indian basketry. When a Native basket rage swept across the...
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Riding to Win
As the world’s first rodeo team composed entirely of Black women prepares for the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo, merely outworking, outthinking, and outrunning the competition is no longer enough....
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Art Gallery: Star Liana York
Figurative sculptor Star Liana York is just as comfortable in a foundry as she is in a stable saddling up for a ride through the rural countryside surrounding her ranch near Abiquiu, New Mexico....
View ArticleFalling In Love With Your Ranch Entrance
Here’s how one Texas-owned business has changed the way you feel when driving up to your home or ranch across America. The saying is true everything is bigger in Texas and that goes for ranch and...
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With A Little Help From Best Friends
“Save Them All” is the ambitious mission of the hardworking and heartwarming Best Friends Animal Society and Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah. From a base padded with pinyon and juniper, the Vermillion Cliffs...
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Grand Canyon Celebration of Art
The painting exhibition is mostly virtual this year, but it’s as breathtaking as ever. On Wednesday, September 2, we got a stunning perspective of the West at 25,000 feet when magician David Blaine...
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C&I Works Out With Dave McElroy
The muscular Minnesota country singer gives us the lowdown on his fitness routine. When we premiered Dave McElroy’s “Trucker Hat” video this summer, we couldn’t help but notice how seriously strong and...
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Art Gallery: Duke Beardsley
The image of a lone cowboy working cattle in the wide-open spaces of the West is a soothing, unchanging, timeless symbol of America. But that’s not reality on the range, and it certainly isn’t the...
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