The nation’s only interstate historic, narrow-gauge railway, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad between Antonito, Colorado, and Chama, New Mexico, kicked off its 45th season on May 23. The engineering marvel was built in 1880 as the San Juan Extension of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Rail fans of all ages will be thrilled by the magnificent beauty of the dramatic geology, deep canyons and endless vistas of the Rocky Mountains that can only be enjoyed from the historic passenger coaches of the Cumbres & Toltec. To book your summertime adventure on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railway, and more information on all the special events and unique train trips of the 2015 season that ends on October 18, visit CumbresToltec.com.
July 2015
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- The Big Divide
- The Last Indian Battle
- The Old West is Alive in San Diego
- Outlaw Hideouts
- Shot and Left for Dead
- Frank Hamer’s First Gunfight
- Butch Cassidy Master Train Robber?
- Oh, Those Orange Novels
- Tombstone Merchant Frank Carleton
- The Films of Pancho Villa
- Camels in the West
- One Decked Out Dude
- Should Old Acquaintance be Forgot
- Lost Pick Mine
- Lubbock Pride: The National Ranching Heritage Center
- Captain Harry Love
- Lew Wallace in New Mexico
- The Old West Alive in Prescott, Arizona, U.S.A.
- John Hance
- Poker Alice
- The Talents of Thomas Fitch
- Fifty-Five Years The Rebel: Johnny Yuma in Production
- Señora Doña Maria Luz Corral de Villa
- Red Ghost
- A Whole Lotta Lola
- Presidential Bovine
- You Tell ’em Jim!
- Comanche Jack Stilwell
- Western State of Mind: Lubbock, Texas
- David Crockett
- Video Villa!
- Fleming Parker
- All Aboard! Cumbres & Toltec Celebrates 45 Years!
- An Outlaw’s Mentor
- King of the Felted Green
- When A Dollar Meant A Dollar
- Billy Dixon Shot of the Century
- Historic Induction of Western Writers Hall of Fame
- Dragged to Death
- The Botched Hanging of Bill Longley
- One Useful Rag
- Beat these Records!
- Bawdy House Gals
- A New Western from the Gold Country in the Southwest Pacific!
- Robert Sallee James
- Chasing Villa
- Newfangled Motion Pictures
- When the Count Went West
- Tiburcio Vasquez
- Oops
- Seen the Elephant
- Long Live the King of the Wild Frontier
- Rodeo Capital of the World
- Wyoming at 125: Still Bucking
- American Indian Trails of the West
- Milkshake Mix-Up
- Pancho in Pictures
- Did gunfighters practice shooting?
- Why do airplane paratroopers shout “Geronimo” when they jump?
- Will you recommend a dictionary of American West language and slang?
- Who was hired killer Bob Higdon?
- Does “cookie” refer to cook?
- John Read
- July 2015 Events
- Trail’s End for a Southern Son
- The “Apocryphal Cantos” of Walter Noble Burns
- Manifest Destiny on the Rio Grande
- John James Audubon
- Sitting Bull’s Nemesis
- On the Western Trail of the Civil War with Walter Earl Pittman
- Rough Drafts 7/15
- Studying Villa’s Raid