Legend has it that when William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was visiting Wyoming in 1894, his son-in-law brought him to the top of the Bighorn Mountains. Looking out over the Shoshone River and the sprawling Bighorn Basin, the entrepreneur and legendary showman clearly saw an...
Director Steven Spielberg once said his greatest fear was boring his audience. And that’s a fear artist David Yarrow takes to heart. “If his biggest fear is boring people, then we all better watch out,” Yarrow says, laughing. “But I think that’s a good starting premise...
An East Coast financial executive and art collector had a long-standing dream for a home in the Rocky Mountain West where she could ski, fish, hike, and replenish in the quiet of nature. The Yellowstone Club — a 15,200-acre private ski, golf, and adventure community...
Sonoma, California-based architect Amy A. Alper has an ever-growing list of award-winning residential designs that, while modern, engage seamlessly with their Wine Country surroundings, employing so-called rustic materials in innovative ways. Since the catastrophic fire of 2017, and the yearly fires that have followed, her...
If the walls of room 222 at the Strater Hotel in Durango, Colorado, could talk, overnight guests might hear tales of writer Louis L’Amour, who spent many days there, inspired by the gaiety and music emanating from the saloon directly beneath his room, fixated on...
The Newlywood Set by Earlywood Based in the mountain town of Red Lodge, Montana, Earlywood handcrafts heirloom-quality kitchen tools with an artisan twist. Founder Brad Bernhart — a former mechanical engineer — has always had a deep respect for “the oldest, most beat up, most worn,...
When people talk about art meccas, New York City, Paris, and L.A. come to mind. Colorado Springs, however, not so much, if at all, which is unfortunate because, at the turn of the 20th century, thanks to philanthropic visionaries Julie and Spencer Penrose, the town...
Internationally renowned photographer Douglas Friedman is driving through a flat, empty desert in an open black Jeep on a lonely dirt road. Pulling up with a flourish in a cloud of dust next to a flowering white yucca framed against a brilliant blue sky, he...
Art collectors are a curious and rare breed. So rare, in fact, that according to research published in 2015 by Larry’s List, an art industry research company, there are just 8,000 to 10,000 art collectors in the world. The world. Because collecting is such a dedicated...
One autumn afternoon in 2016, Karen Vance set out on a painting jaunt from her home in Winter Park Ranch, Colorado. Her destination was 40 minutes north in Rocky Mountain National Park: Bowen-Baker Gulch, where snowmelt-fed headwaters of the Colorado River flow beneath Baker Mountain....