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Discover all the wonderful items from our annual gift guide (page 142) made right here in the United States. Search Gift Guide at cowboysindians.com. Staff members share their favorite holiday meals and mealtime traditions—recipes included! Check out

The Aguiar family has been making and trading authentic leather moccasins for nearly half a century. Over the decades, they’ve infused their strong sense of family into the business, which extends to longtime employees and a vast wholesale and tradin

Bodie, California: It was the quintessential Wild West gold-mining boomtown, and one with more than its share of violence. Today the ghost town looks like the set of a Clint Eastwood western, its weathered buildings preserved in a state of “arrested

It’s a horseback adventure that can include the most challenging days you’ll ever face in the saddle, and some of the most spectacular. The 2021 Rock Creek Pack Station Spring Horse Drive was the hottest in memory, with scorching days in the desert o

TALKING WITH PAINTER AD MADDOX IS LIKE JUMPING ON A MOTORCYCLE AND GUNNING IT. WHICH IS something Amelia Drane (“Drane is an old family name”) Maddox has been known to do. Back in the days when she was painting denim and “bug guts”—and deciding to go

“IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO CLAY—CLAY FIGURES AND CLAY SCULPTURES,” SAYS KATHLEEN WALL, A recipient of one of New Mexico’s 2021 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts, the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture’s 2020 and 2021 Native Treasures Living Treasu

BY THE TIME KIRA FERCHO WAS 13 YEARS OLD, SHE WAS SELLING PAINTINGS OF MONTANA LANDSCAPES at local gift shops for $100 apiece. Today, she’s still painting aspens, horses, and herds of buffalo roaming across backgrounds inspired by her home state, but

What’s your favorite holiday tradition and why? “I love driving the streets of Dallas looking at Christmas lights. The homes in the Park Cities have some of the most elaborate holiday decorations, and everyone has their windows open wide to share the

FIFTY YEARS AGO, IF YOU WERE IN THE MOOD for a western, there was probably one playing somewhere in your neighborhood; but it might not be the kind you were expecting. In 1971 the genre was in the midst of a transition, in which new visions of the Ol

FREDDIE BITSOIE, ONE OF THE leading chefs specializing in Native American cuisine and a member of the Navajo Nation, wants us all to become more familiar with the foods of his ancestors. Formerly the executive chef at Mitsitam Native Foods Café, loca

Serves 6 to 8 Braised short ribs are one of my favorite comfort foods, so I couldn’t help but include two recipes for them. This heartier, thicker, wintrier version feels a bit more rustic than the Sumac-Braised Ribs. … These also cook a bit longer t

COLE HAUSER IS ON THE LINE, CALLING FROM HIS HOME IN FLORIDA WHILE HE ENJOYS SOME much-deserved R&R after playing lead roles in two back-to-back feature films — Panama, an action-adventure in which he appears alongside Mel Gibson, and Muti, a thrille

The Harder They Fall puts the wild back into the Wild West. Imagine a dream team collaboration of Sergio Leone, John Woo, and Spike Lee, and you’re ready for director Jeymes Samuel’s audaciously stylized and brazenly entertaining Netflix western. It’

Benedict Cumberbatch has been generating awards buzz since director Jane Campion’s western drama received a four-minute standing ovation in September at the Venice Film Festival. Based on the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage, the film showcases Cumberbatc

IN ITS FOUR-YEAR-RUN AS A network, The Cowboy Channel has scored major points with rodeo fans by covering the marquee arena performances and by putting viewers up close for the biggest show—Wrangler National Finals Rodeo each December. But it’s not o

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I DRIVE MY RENTED RED CHEVY CRUZE AS DEEP INTO BEARS EARS as it will go. When the rocks and ruts get too big in the national monument in southeast Utah, I park. Kitty Calhoun—who has guided ice, rock, and alpine climbs across the world for four decad

Horseman, Artist, and Extreme Mustang Makeover Champion I know that I haven’t been livingThe way that you wanted me to.Though I’ve been taught to stand and be my own manThe thing that was missing was You. Now I’ve never been real good at praying,I re

Imagine this piece of untouched Texas land for sale: With a mile of frontage on the Brazos River, it has areas of dense woods, changes in topography, a nice big creek, and lagoons where the creek feeds into the river. It’s a blank canvas where a woul

For 29 nights in December, the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix celebrates Las Noches de las Luminarias. Illuminated by the glow of more than 8,000 hand-lit luminaria bags, the garden will host its longest-running tradition from December 3–31. The

Cowboys & Indians: We’ve been celebrating the 10th anniversary of the premiere of Hell on Wheels. And Anson Mount pointed out that, like quite a few actors who played major roles throughout the series, you originally were hired for just a few episode