Flying W Wranglers These cowboys don’t just sing about horses and cattle; they also get down and dirty during branding season at the Flying W Ranch in Colorado Springs, Colorado. But once chuckwagon season starts, the Flying W Wranglers, the second-oldest Western singing group, takes the stage. (The oldest such group is Sons of the Pioneers, which included Roy Rogers among its founders.) The Flying W Wranglers play traditional cowboy songs, such as “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” and “My Col
September 2010
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- Caught With His Pants Down?
- One Basket at a Time
- Rediscovering the O.K. Corral
- Buffalo, Wyoming
- Waddie Mitchell
- Equitrekking the American West
- A Cowboy Classic is Created
- Following John Wesley Hardin Across Texas
- A Cure for Baldness?
- The Myth of the Single Shot Kill
- The Genesis of Jeans
- From Baxter Black to the Powwow Idol
- “He’s No Parlor Car Artist”
- Lone Star Vodka
- Whatever happened to Johnny Ringo’s guns?
- A few years back, we visited a Kansas site called “Little House on the Prairie.”
- What does the word “tinhorn” mean?
- What can you share about Judge Roy Bean?
- Did trail drives ever intersect?
- Where did the term “chuckwagon” come from?