Articles Archive

Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers

by Cynthia Green | Jan 3, 2005

Between 1841-66, nearly 500,000 pioneers went west. Forty thousand of them were children, and one in five women gave birth on the trail. Rarely,...

The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and Mountain West, 1865-1915

by Chuck Lewis | Jan 3, 2005

According to Szasz, religious clergy were as common in the American West as cowboys and miners. He does a good job of proving it with literate...

On a Silver Desert

by Richard H. Dillon | Jan 3, 2005

Winner of a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, this first-ever biography of Ernest Haycox is by his son and namesake. Haycox was probably...

Open Road…In the Life

by Bill Groll | Jan 3, 2005

With their white-felt hats, suits and skinny ties, the members of Open Road are dressed to put Traditional Country back into Bluegrass—which they...

Old Friends

by Sandy Whiting | Jan 3, 2005

Firefighter Anthony Michael James strikes his own match to the flames reaffirming what Country music should be. The CD and title song “Old Friends”...

A Tribute to Jimmy Martin “The King of Bluegrass”

by Bill Groll | Jan 3, 2005

The “Good ’N Country” style of Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys entertained and inspired several generations since the 1950s. Jimmy’s climb...

A Ballad of the West: Songs From the Epic Trilogy

by Corinne Brown | Jan 3, 2005

Bobby Bridger is a modern epic poet or bard, once referred to as the “Shakespeare of the American West.” Bridger’s rich musical trilogy spans the...

In Her Daddy’s Footsteps

by Bill Groll | Jan 3, 2005

Alecia was nominated for Emerging Artist of the Year in 2004 by the International Bluegrass Musicians Association, but that doesn’t mean she...

In His Blood

by Johnny D. Boggs | Jan 3, 2005

Before you dismiss Thomas Eidson as some Easterner who doesn’t know a whit about the Old West, think again. Sure, Eidson is executive vice president...