The Selection Below is by No Means All of the Items for Purchase. Every Bronze Sculpture on This Site is Available for Purchase Except for Monuments
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Wyatt Earp was known as a Western lawman, gunfighter, and boxing referee. After his death, he had a notorious reputation for both his handling of the Fitzsimmons-Sharkey fight and his role in the O.K. Corral gunfight. This perception began to change after an extremely flattering biography was published in 1931. It became a bestseller and created his reputation as a fearless lawman. Since then, Earp has been the subject of numerous films, television shows, biographies, and works of fiction that have increased the myth surrounding the man. One of Earp’s modern-day reputations is that of the Old West’s “toughest and deadliest gunman of his day. -
Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders July 1, 1898 This 26’’x 36’’ bronze plaque commemorates the Rough Rider’s Charge on San Juan Hill. Before becoming President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He resigned in 1898 to organize the Rough Riders, the first voluntary cavalry in the Spanish-American War. The U.S. was fighting against Spain over Spain’s colonial policies with Cuba. Roosevelt recruited a diverse group of cowboys, miners, law enforcement officials, and Native Americans to join the Rough Riders. They participated in the capture of Kettle Hill, and then charged across a valley to assist in the seizure of San Juan Ridge, the highest point of which is San Juan Hill. -
Quanah Parker was the last Chief of the Comanches and never lost a battle to the white man. His tribe roamed over the area where Pampa stands. He was never captured by the Army, but decided to surrender and lead his tribe into the white man’s culture, only when he saw that there was no alternative. His was the last tribe in the Staked Plains to come into the reservation system. -
Phantly Roy Bean, Jr. (c. 1825 – March 16, 1903) was an eccentric U.S. saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself “The Law West of the Pecos”. According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas. After his death, Western films and books cast him as a hanging judge, though he is known to have sentenced only two men to hang, one of whom escaped. Please Read Description Below for Ordering Details -
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Jean Lafitte was a smuggler and privateer operating in the Gulf of Mexico during the early 19th century. His base was on an island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, and he was a very successful smuggler. However, eventually smuggling became less profitable, and he gradually fell into piracy. He became an exceptional pirate – so much so that he became a prime target of the fledgling USN. Ultimately, his base was captured, and both he and his men were imprisoned. Please See Details Below -
John Henry “Doc” Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist who is one of the most iconic participants of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Holliday earned a dentist degree from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, and set up his first practice in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1873 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, the same disease which claimed his mother when he was 15. He moved to the American Southwest hoping the climate would help his condition. He became a gambler and a deadly gunman. During his travels, he met and became a good friend of Wyatt Earp and his brothers. In 1880, he moved to Tombstone, Arizona, and fought alongside the Earps at the O.K. Corral. -
The life of a mountain man was hard and most failed to last more than a few years in the wilderness. They faced many hazards including biting insects, wolves, wolverines, notwithstanding bad weather, injuries and hostile Indian tribes. Grizzly bears were one of the mountain man’s greatest enemies. Winters were brutal with heavy snow storms and sub-zero temperatures. In order to stay alive, the men needed keen senses, and an ability to improvise. Mountain men dressed in animal skins and trapped fur animals in addition to trading with Indian tribes. See Description Below for Ordering Information