The famous Mother Road pathway lingers in our memories, and Russell A. Olsen highlights its charms in Route 66: Lost & Found (Voyageur Press,...
Route 66: Lost & Found
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Cleaving an Unknown World
By 1869, Lewis & Clark, trappers, U.S. Army surveyors and pioneer emigrants had pretty much explored most of the continental United States, but...
The Great Plains Guide to Custer
When folks ask me about the goals I have as the U.S. Congress’s “Foremost Custer Living Historian,” I tell them that, in addition to reading the...
Little Big Man
The Western was fair game in 1970, when the movie Little Big Man was released. Those were cynical times, and people were polarized—politically,...
John Fusco
I loved working with the “Young Guns,” but it was the Old Guns, like Jack Palance, James Coburn and Brian Keith, who made it a true Western...
10 for 10: Bismarck, ND
1. Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park provides the finest example of living history on the Northern Plains. Besides the reconstructed Custer House...
Supersized in San Antonio
Texans don’t call San Antonio’s Witte Museum the “people’s museum” to be folksy. Unlike many museums that come into being with a nice endowment from...
Unsinkable Margaret Brown
On April 15, 1912, the brand new passenger liner Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg. More than 1,500 people died, and the legend of the...
Snake River Salmon
“While travelling along the Snake River, father secured a fine, large salmon from an Indian, and we looked forward to a good feast at supper time....
Paramount’s Golden Boy
A.C. Lyles, 93 years young, vividly recalls the Western movies he grew up watching. But Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson or Fred Thomson didn’t bring him to...
Gary Ernest Smith
Gary Ernest Smith can often be found creating artworks in his Highland, Utah, studio, or out in the vast, open spaces. “I like the challenge,” Smith...
Following Sibley’s Confederate Invasion
You’ve gotta love Texians and the Confederate government. They actually thought this was a good idea. In 1861, Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley...