Jimmy Stewart left Bedford Falls and headed to Death Valley in Nevada and California. He wouldn't need the help of a guardian angel there. The actor...
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The 20-Mule Team’s Miracle Mineral
The year was 1883, and muleskinners were earning more than college graduates ($120 per month). It was hard-earned money, fraught with danger both...
Who Killed the Train?
RAILROAD, n. The chief purpose of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are better off. For this purpose the...
Adventures in the West
AGES 10-13: Adventures in the West is an anthology of stories of the West that range from Indian legends to a story by L. Frank Baum (creator of The...
Rawhide: The Second Season, Vol. II
(Paramount; $38.99.) What made Rawhide an exceptional series is that it usually held fast to its single, simple premise, a handful of drovers push...
The Essential John Ford Collection
(Fox Home Video; $49.98.) Those who look hungrily at the massive Ford at Fox DVD box set, which lists at $299, but are hesitant to pony up that kind...
Preservation: The Little Railroad that Might
Things seem to be looking up for the Mount Hood Railroad, located in the Hood River Valley, some 60 miles east of Portland, Oregon. Permian Basin...
Saving Grandma’s Cabin
Anybody looking at the rotten foundation logs, the caved in roof, the shoved in southeast corner of the cabin would mark it for demolition. Unless,...
Grand Stations
Railroad depots need their own Ada Louise Huxtable, even though the woman at the forefront of the historic preservation movement, and a...
Deadly Dozen: Vol. II (Nonfiction)
What an intriguing book! Names like Jim Moon, Jack Jolly and Zack Light may not be familiar to you, but they created more gun-related chaos than...
Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons (Nonfiction)
This well-written book gives us a detailed (almost day-by-day) account of the 33-year career of a rugged outdoorsman of whom most of us have never...
Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway (Nonfiction)
The authors have a great sense of humor for their passion, which is to be admired. Anyone who travels the country in search of rock formations,...