My favorite place in the West is northern Nevada. The Owyhee Range. It’s the distance. There’s nothing out there. At least, people say there’s...
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Kingsville, Texas
The first to begin the dream of taming the Wild Horse Desert was Capt. Richard King. He established the famous King Ranch on 825,000 acres, along...
Preservation: Cash for the Nellie Cashman
Cash for the Nellie Cashman It ain’t easy to maintain a historic landmark. Just ask the Skinners of Tombstone, Arizona. They own the Nellie Cashman...
The Taming of the Artist
The rise of Charlie Russell, and the wife who made him a star. This triumphant moment had all begun with a marital spat, Nancy liked to say. Charlie...
Sioux on the Beach
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody had been planning his next feat as a showman when, in 1882, he was asked to stage an “Old Glory Blowout” in North...
High Noon
Many regard High Noon as one of the supremely significant moments in American film, especially as it relates to the players, and the politics, of...
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Vol. III
Indiana Jones may have been a professor and an archaeologist, but he always had the DNA of Western heroes. Guns, whips, horses, hats and the Yakima...
The Phantom Empire
Gene Autry wasn’t completely green when he starred in the 12-chapter serial The Phantom Empire in 1935. He’d made a musical appearance in 1934’s In...
Runaway Horse Reined in
When New Line pictures was folded into Warner Brothers recently, the fate of several films was left uncertain, including Appaloosa, which is based...
Fred Labour
The trick to doing live shows at the Grand Ole Opry is the same as anywhere: go in with guns blazing, communicate with the folks, keep it loose and...
The West’s Best Saloons
I’m sitting in some waterin’ hole with Sherry Monahan. She’s the popular historian, author of Tombstone’s Treasure and The Wicked West, a woman with...
Whiskey Rows
At 47, merchant Philip Drachman teamed his freight overland from Yuma, Arizona, by mule train before the Southern Pacific reached his home base in...