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Home on the Range
For four decades, former Nebraska homesteader-turned-frontier photographer Solomon D. Butcher posed homesteader families and their livestock in...
What History Has Taught Me: W.K. (Kip) Stratton
Author, Historian, Poet W.K. (Kip) Stratton wrote the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the...
Cowboys, Shotguns and Hackamores
Where did Cowboys like John Ringo and Curly Bill Brocius live? Walt Serefin Shawnee, Kansas They spent much of their time in Galeyville, Arizona...
Western Roundup: July/August 2022
PRESCOTT FRONTIER DAYS’ WORLD’S OLDEST RODEO Prescott, AZ, June 28-July 4: The 135th annual rodeo celebrates the 50th anniversary of the release of...
Ridin’ the Rails
Historic Train Excursions Coast to Coast From North Carolina to California, Montana to Texas, “ridin’ the rails” is reminiscent of days gone by,...
Riding for the Guidon
U.S. Cavalry School at Little Bighorn Battlefield is a real-life history lesson. I stood on the banks of the Little Bighorn River at Medicine Tail...
Muskogee, Oklahoma
The historic city celebrates its music, history and Old Glory. Anyone of age in 1969 when Merle Haggard released his megahit song “Okie From...
Lee Martin
A born storyteller, the California ranch girl has worked hard at her craft to become a successful Western novelist and screenwriter. ...
Hallowed Heroes Sacred Lands
A dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, plus a novel of the Mexican War, a history of slavery on the border, a classic Western and a...
Idaho Trout
Idaho may be synonymous with potatoes, but trout has been a pioneer staple since it was first settled where cold rivers, streams and creeks were...
Magnet for Miners
A tour of Western Montana is rich in mining heritage, ghost towns and living history centers. Gold seekers started flooding into western Montana in...