I admire books where a writer uses another writer’s book as a guide to the territory, as Ivan Doig does with a 19th-century diary in Winter Brothers or as Richard Holmes does with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes in a section of Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer. When my wife Sue and I decided to move to Colorado, I immediately started looking for

September 2009
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- Fort Worth, Texas
- R.W. Hampton
- Spirit West River Lodge
- Sea of Sage
- Vaquero Firepower
- Preservation: Saving the Neighborhood
- Collecting American Outlaws
- Puttin’ Up the Pantry
- The Misery of Mining in the Old West
- Mapping the Black Hills: Valentine T. McGillycuddy
- Patton’s First Two Notches
- It’s Miller Time Again
- Little Miss Sure Shot’s Family Mementos
- My buddy says the pioneers used horses to pull wagons; I say, oxen.
- Top 10 Things To See In Tucson
- How do I use the lariat?
- Who is Patrick Sylvester McGeeney?
- Why is Maj. Marcus Reno of the 7th Cavalry such a controversial figure?
- Who is Badger Clark?