I was disappointed to learn Log of a Cowboy was a work of fiction; can you recommend nonfiction works about the trail driving era? Dave Bourne...
I was disappointed to learn Log of a Cowboy was a work of fiction.
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Reach for the Sky
Reach for the Sky is currently shooting near Glen Rose, Texas. Producer Glenn Helm has brought aboard Alan Chan to direct the HD picture, so one can...
The Good, Bad, Ugly Comic?
Western movies these days are few and far between, but Western games and comic books continue to appear with some regularity. Movie heroes Zorro,...
Lonely Are The Brave
Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) is the kind of cowboy that mamas are warned not to let their babies grow up to be. He has no respect for authority, and he...
Fort Worth, Texas
Local historian J.R. Edmonson does not hesitate when asked who everyone in Fort Worth knows. “Steve Murrin, a third-generation cowboy whose...
Ken Burns’s Best Work Ever
Ken Burns is more than a chronicler of American history and culture. As early as 1981, when Burns presented his film on the history of the Brooklyn...
R.W. Hampton
I will always be a cowboy at heart. I worked hard to “earn my spurs”; I feel proud knowing that I rode with that special tribe, and they called me...
Spirit West River Lodge
When Lynn and R.G. Finney’s sons were small, the family lived in a Victorian-sized house that had belonged to her grandmother. When they had an...
Sea of Sage
Go trail riding in Snow Canyon State Park in St. George, Utah, and you’ll be riding through Utah’s Dixie. When Brigham Young called upon the...
Vaquero Firepower
During Mexico’s Revolution of 1910, the rebel forces fought for their freedom with a vast variety of firearms that ran the gamut from blackpowder...
Preservation: Saving the Neighborhood
Saving the Neighborhood Wyoming was still living the Wild West when the state’s first governor’s mansion was built in Cheyenne in 1904. It housed...
Collecting American Outlaws
Growing up in Missouri in the 1930s, Wilbur Zink loved listening to family legends as he sat at the kitchen table. The one that most impressed him...