The annual Couer d'Alene Auction in Reno, Nevada, totalled a strong $9.2 million (with buyer's premium) on July 24. Among the 312 lots of traditional and contemporary Western, wildlife, and sporting art, were several notable record-breakers.

A 13-by-10-inch portrait of Chief Joseph by Edgar Paxon (1852–1919) garnered a new world auction record of $163,800 for the artist.

Alaskan artists performed well, including Sydney Laurence, whose 40-by-36-inch oil of Mt. McKinley brought $70,200.

A tiny (4.75-by-7.5-inch) Gunnar Widforss (1879-1934) pond view with lily pads that previously went unsold at a Swedish sale was among the sale's surprises. The $400/600 estimate for the 1915 watercolor was blown away to a final price of $11,115.

The cover lot, "Kachina Painter" (1917) by Eanger Irving Couse, brought $753,000.

A number of contemporary artists reached world record prices, while 19th-century artists also found eager buyers. Of note, Enoch Perry Wood's early Yosemite scene (1863), brought $76,050, and Charles M. Russell's "Dakota Chief" (1897), a 12-by-18 oil on board, fetched $631,000, above its high estimate of $600,000.