The result is a collection that Trois estimates at more than 5,000 cap guns and holster rigs, lovingly displayed in specially designed glass cases in his personal museum at his bed-and-breakfast ...

When the late Western Mass. artist Tom Bernard was in his 70s, he opted to turn his lifelong passion for the American West ...

Quick as lightning, he pulled out two bright orange cap guns from holsters around his waist, striking a picture-perfect pose as a New Haven cowboy, lost in the city but somehow right where he needed ...