Guthrie, Oklahoma

To encourage our readers to visit this year’s winners of our Top 10 True Western Towns award announced in Jan/Feb, each issue will showcase the local flavor at one of these towns. The starting place for the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889, Guthrie still has cobblestone streets and a downtown district full of 18th-early 19th-century buildings (see Victor Inn, below). And we mean full. As the largest historic district in the nation, Guthrie boasts 2,169 buildings in 400 city blocks. Downtown is th