Charles F. Lummis, founder and editor of Land of Sunshine/Out West, has inspired a few books, including a Spur award-winning biography in 2002. He...
Charles F. Lummis: Editor of the Southwest
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Articles
The Boys at the Bar
Reading the back cover comments, as many consumers do, I immediately formed a negative opinion (I spent my college weekends in Steamboat Springs,...
The Western Godfather
It didn't surprise me that Kurt Russell was willing to go off topic during our interview last April. After all, it was the end of the day and he was...
Stuck to Her Dream
"I buried Pecker in his favorite place. I’d seen him come to pray here sometimes early of a morning when the sun was just coming over the eastern...
Pendleton, Oregon
To encourage our readers to visit this year’s winners of our Top 10 True Western Towns award announced in Jan/Feb, each issue will showcase the...
Gold Rush Sale for Art Collectors
Marge Schott was the primary owner and CEO of the Cincinnati Reds for nearly 15 years, after purchasing controlling interest in the team in 1984....
Preservation: Call to Arms
Call to Arms MISS: “A famous ad that most boy baby boomers will recall from Boys’ Life, the old scouting magazine of the ’50s, showed a happy lad,...
Art Trumps History Every Time
“Expect great things of art. Hope to be moved by it—to happiness, to reflection; even, if need be, to sorrow. Ask very much of art. And art, great...
Old Cowtown Museum
Being a Kansas Gas and Electric man, Phil Hoch wasn’t sure he could be quick enough on his feet to dance in the Entre Nous, a Victorian dance group...
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Critics who wallpapered The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada with references to Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia missed the...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Two-Disc Collector’s Edition
George Roy Hill’s take on the story of the Wild Bunch was a stunning success, a $100 million crowd pleaser that was snubbed by the critics and some...
John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection
The Duke is back. On March 13, 1956, The Searchers opened across America in all its VistaVision glory, and if you’d asked John Wayne back...