Donning a yellow slicker, the cowboy crouches beside Biscuit before a day’s ride, sipping from his mug under a makeshift tent. The fog hangs thick. You can almost feel the wet. Such moods can’t be staged in painting—at least not according to Western artist Mikel Donahue. It takes authenticity, riding with real cowboys doing cowboy…

“You can’t paint timid.” Bold. That’s how the cowboy artist from Canyon, Texas, approaches his painting. “I’d rather paint a bold brush stroke wrong than a timid brush stroke right,” Jack Sorenson, 69, told The Epoch Times. With 48 years of experience under his belt, rendering the Old West and the New West in oil,…

Gene Autry’s life story reads like a great American novel. Known as “America’s favorite singing cowboy,” the country star paired his entrepreneurial spirit with his love of entertaining audiences and became one of the country-western genre’s most unique and beloved figures. After amassing an audience with a slew of performances throughout the 1920s, he signed…

Some have suggested that the Kevin Costner-led modern western TV show “Yellowstone” is a “red state” show, but is it? The show’s creator and actors have responded to this liberal critique, but I will do a more in-depth analysis to see if this hit show speaks to a unique audience. …

Idahoan Cary Schwarz puts his heart into saddle making–a lifelong student keen to improve and perfect his work. Now in his fourth decade as a saddler, Schwarz is surely a master craftsman, but that’s something that he’ll never call himself, he said in a telephone interview. Schwarz sees ”becoming a master” as a byproduct of…

A beautiful widow asks three gunmen to retrieve a shipment of gold that her husband had robbed during his lifetime to settle the case with the government. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it…

A cowboy whose friend has been swindled out of his ranch and then murdered must take care of the man’s son; then, he goes after the killers. The Montana Kid is a 1931 American film directed by Harry L. Fraser. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature…

A small Quebec town is resorting to cowboy tactics to round up a herd of runaway cattle that have evaded capture for months and have been wreaking havoc in farmers’ fields. The mayor of St-Sévère, in Quebec’s Mauricie region, says the 20 or so young animals jumped out of their field at the end of…

A sculptor from South Dakota is immortalizing the cultural heritage of the land he loves by turning rusted scrap metal and old farming equipment into breathtaking, life-sized works of art. John Lopez, 51, lives on a 14-acre hobby ranch in Lemmon, South Dakota, the town where he was born and raised. Besides his two (breathing)…

While a journalism professor at the University of Wyoming when I wore a younger man’s clothes, I became close friends with a bowlegged, hardheaded cowboy. Seeing us together on the streets of Laramie, folks would holler, “Here comes the cowboy and the professor.” My city slicker self had never ridden a horse, much less herded…