2021-2022 was another time period many people would like to forget, but Western art museums sure made life better and helped take our minds off pandemics, politics and wars. Charles M. Russell and Maynard Dixon still can cure what ails us, and today's multitalented painters and sculptors-not to mention curators and docents-still touch us, move us, and make us think and wonder.
Here are the year's best:
1. C.M. RUSSELL MUSEUM (GREAT FALLS, MT)
The museum that houses Charles M. Russell's home and studio has always been true to Russell's vision. Russell would have been moved by The Sundance Series, Gary Schildt's 42 paintings of the Blackfeet Medicine Lodge Ceremony that ran from November 12, 2021, to May 22, 2022. But if you just want Russell, Modest Yet Masterful: Small Scale Masterworks by Charles M. Russell, which runs through September, reveals that Russell didn't need a large canvas to touch viewers. Besides, the permanent exhibits are among the best you'll find anywhere. CMRussell.org
2. JOSLYN ART MUSEUM (OMAHA, NE)
The museum that opened November 29, 1931, celebrated 90 years with Ninety Years of Joslyn Art Museum and highlighted one of its best collections with Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer, both of which closed May 1. We hope you got to see those, because on May 2, the Joslyn closed for construction and renovation. We can't wait till 2024, when the museum debuts its new look, including the 42,000-square-foot Rhonda and Howard Hawks Pavilion. Josyln.org
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Where Did the Loot Go? - This is one of those find the money stories. And it's one that has attracted treasure hunters for more than 150 years.
Whatever happened to the $97,000 from the Reno Gang's last heist? Up to a dozen members of the Reno Gang stopped a Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis train at a watering station in southern Indiana. The outlaws had prior intelligence about its main load: express car safes held about $97,000 in government bonds and notes. In the process of the job, one of the crew was killed and two others hurt. The gang made a clean getaway with the loot.
Hero of Horsepower - Los Angeles lawman William Hammel tamed one of the West's wildest towns with hard work and horseless carriages.
Los Angeles lawman William Hammel tamed one of the West's wildest towns with hard work and horseless carriages.
From the Basin to the Plains
Discover Wyoming on a road trip to Cody, Casper and Cheyenne.
COLLECTING AMERICAN OUTLAWS
Wilbur Zink has preserved the Younger Gang's history in more ways than one.
Spencer's West
After the Civil War, savvy frontiersmen chose the Spencer repeating carbine.
Firearms With a Storied Past
Rock Island gavels off high profits from historic firearms.
She Means Business!
An energetic and ambitious woman has come to Lincoln, New Mexico, to restore the town's legendary Ellis Store.
Ride that Train!
HERITAGE RAILROADS KEEP THE OLD WEST ALIVE ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
Saddle Up with a Western
Old West fiction and nonfiction are the perfect genres to fill your summer reading list.
RENEGADES OF THE RAILS
RAILROADS WERE OPEN SEASON FOR OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY OUTLAW GANGS.
