St. Paul, Fargo, Jamestown, Bismarck, Glendive, Billings, Livingston, Bozeman, Missoula, Sandpoint, Spokane, Yakima, Tacoma. These are some of the...
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Casper, Wyoming
Wild Bunch outlaw Tom O’Day may not have entered Casper willingly (in 1903, he was tried and jailed for stealing a herd of horses nearby), but many...
Geocaching Adventure
Rain had fallen for more than 24 hours, so it was not a typical morning in Phoenix, Arizona—cold, wet and the air thick with the smell of crushed...
Walk the Read
Do you know the history behind...the pedometer craze sweeping across the nation? Look to the Old Order Amish, who naturally log more than the...
Bookin’ It
Granville Stuart was a lot of things—merchant, miner, rancher, diplomat, vigilante—and an avid reader. His Montana cabin was filled with books...
There Will Be Oscars
The single element that both connected and distinguished David Milch's HBO series Deadwood from the Westerns that preceded it was that the corrupt...
The J. Golden Kimball Stories (Fiction)
This is a serious look at a humorous figure of the Mormon church, J. Golden Kimball. His gaunt figure, magpie voice and fiery delivery made him the...
Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief (Nonfiction)
This famed Apache left historians with little written record with which to study his life. Although Dan Thrapp's biography adequately utilizes...
Walk Proud, Stand Tall (Fiction)
Lin Garrett is 70 years old, down on his luck and living on a "poor farm" in Flagstaff, Arizona. Suffering from arthritis and kidney failure, he...
The Road to McCarthy
Even though The Road isn't a Western in the traditional sense, many feel that the post-apocalyptic genre and the Western are two sides of the same...
Death Valley 49ers Centennial
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...
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...