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Western Events for November 2016
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Highway of History, Last Chance Byway: The History of Nine Mile Canyon
Lately engaged in a tug-of-war between archaeologists and energy developers, Nine Mile Canyon lies in the middle of hundreds of square miles of...
Impactful Western Short Film, Borrowed Time
A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories come...
What History Has Taught Me
Born in Oakland, California, John McEuen is a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, which is currently on a 50th anniversary tour. McEuen’s...
Winfield Scott: The Fighting Parson
Most people around “The West’s Most Western Town” of Scottsdale, Arizona think of their founder, Winfield Scott as a God-fearing preacher and...
Why Did Stage Drivers Sit on the Right Side?
Why did stage drivers sit on the right side? -Kevin Baldwin of Frankenmuth, Michigan Buggy drivers sat on the right because most were right handed...
Building Your Western Library
Keith McCafferty is the survival and outdoors skills editor of Field & Stream, and the author of The Royal Wulff Murders, The Gray Ghost Murders...
Adah Issacs Menken: The Great Menken
Not all the women who migrated to California during the Gold Rush were prostitutes and gamblers. The women who played the frontier...
Texas Ranger Ben “Dad” Pennington
Ben “Dad” Pennington was 56 when he became a Texas Ranger in 1917. A bit old, perhaps, but Pennington had 20 years of law enforcement experience...
Navajo Women Helped the War Effort, Too
While young Navajo men were away, secretly helping win the war as Code Talkers with their unbreakable code, hundreds of Navajo Women also did their...
TRUE WEST MOMENT: Geronimo on the Beach
According to Apache lore, one day Geronimo and a few warriors took off running from their hideout in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico and kept...
Saying Goodbye to an American Hero
By now, most know the fabulous story of the Navajo Code Talkers—young Navajo men who joined the Marines during World War II and were sent to the...