Fifteen years ago Tom and Linda Whitaker organized the Heber City Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Buckaroo Fair, but they had been collecting Western memorabilia even before stepping up to create an event that recognizes and nurtures cowboy culture. Their new home in Oakley, Utah, is a showcase of their Western furnishings and collectibles ranging from handcrafted burl beds and river rock fireplaces, to chaps, saddles, guns, spurs, bits and artwork. The Whitakers don’t just collect Western reli

October 2009
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Gary Ernest Smith
- Heading for the Hills
- Famed Forty-Fours Shoot Again
- Following Charlie Russell’s Paintbrush
- River Rock Oasis
- Chinese Food Anyone?
- Preservation: An Artistic Renovation
- The Apache Cupid
- The Boot Seen Round The World
- An Awful Time for Children
- Journey of Hope and Prosperity
- Hauntings in the West
- Slaughter
- Did ID cards exist in the Old West?
- How did Indians break horses, as opposed to the cowboy way?
- Is it true that Wyatt Earp killed only one man in Dodge City, Kansas?
- What is the story behind the folk song “Tom Dooley?”
- I was disappointed to learn Log of a Cowboy was a work of fiction.