There isn’t one Old West, there are many, as different as the Spanish–flavored architecture of San Antonio is to the Victorian facades of Deadwood with locales as diverse as the hearty mountain settings of Meeker, Colorado, to the sun and sea washed streets of Old San Diego. The 18 hotels we’ve selected here each offer a different slice of life in the frontier West ranging from the rustic simplicity, to Gilded Age elegance of the 19th century with 21st century convenience.
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July 2014
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- Finding Gold & Gunfights in Helena
- Gems Along the Continental Divide
- A Hunter’s Classic Returns
- The Killing of Bill Tilghman
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Uncle Wyatt’s Gun?
- Dalton Debacle
- The Gunfighters
- Bill O’Neal
- Was Jack Schaefer’s book Shane based on any real-life Old West characters?
- Were duster coats common outerwear on the frontier?
- True West’s Feb. 2014 issue states that Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp’s father was a common baker. Movies claim he was wealthy. Which is it?
- What is a medicine wheel?
- Was horse theft a capital offense during the Old West era?
- Where is Lincoln County War figure Bob Olinger buried?
- Spicing Up the Frontier
- Saving the Wall Street of the West
- Gold & Gambling
- Outlaw Joel Fowler
- A Million Ways to Laugh in the West
- Crusade for Justice on Minnesota Frontier
- Rough Drafts 7/14
- Carson’s Cannons Win the Day
- Frontier Photographers Reveal Our Past
- La Gente Nuevo of Spanish North America
- Debut Western Rides Hard Across Arizona Territory
- July 2014 Events