Bone-chilling cold held Fort Pierre, South Dakota, in its icy grip the evening of January 27, 2010, as six men met in the city’s cozy Log Cabin Information Center. I don’t live in Fort Pierre, but in Pierre, its neighbor across the Missouri River, so I invited experts to help me describe what it’s like to live in this historic Western town: Sam Tidball, Fort Pierre’s mayor, Darby Nutter, cowboy and president of the Verendrye Museum, Zay Norman, rancher, Mike Pellerzi, cowboy, and John

May 2010
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- Fort Pierre, South Dakota
- William C. Porter
- Western Flair the Duke Would Appreciate
- Grape History on a Sunset Ride
- Top 10 Western Museums of 2010
- Great Guns in the Panhandle
- The Walls of a Prison Will Never Hold Me
- Depression-Era Treasure
- Tracking a Vendetta Rider
- As American as Apple Pie
- Mellow-Trauma
- Straws in the Wind
- Custer Portrait Shares a Hidden Story
- Centennial Celebration
- Can you tell me something about the Apache of southern Arizona?
- Can you tell me something about the comic book hero Kid Colt?