Articles Archive

Goddesses with Many Tastes

by Corinne Brown | Apr 1, 2003

Round these parts the question often arises, “What’s the difference between a cowboy and a cowgirl?” The answer is simple: a cowgirl can do...

Cremello

by TW Editors | Apr 1, 2003

Blue-eyed Cremello and Perlino horses were once called Albinos, but now the American Quarter Horse Association has ceased using the term in its...

John Wayne’s 10 Best Westerns

by Miles Hood Swarthout | Apr 1, 2003

Stagecoach (1939)—John Wayne plays the Ringo Kid, who escapes from prison to...

Shootout at Blazer’s Mill

by Bob Boze Bell | Apr 1, 2003

April 4, 1878 Riding 13-strong, the Regulators rein in at Blazer’s Mill on the Mescalero Apache reservation. After drawing the short straw,...

10 Things about the Pony Express

by TW Editors | Apr 1, 2003

You probably didn’t know. • The idea behind a relay mail service didn’t originate with the Pony Express; it was first proposed in 13th-century...

The Pony Express

by Jana Bommersbach | Apr 1, 2003

America was exploding in the mid-1800s. From coast to coast, it was a time of great anxiety—the Civil War was looming, the Mexican War was waging,...

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

by Rosemary McKittrick | Apr 1, 2003

In 1883, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show began in North Platte, Nebraska. Before it folded three decades later, the hunter-scout-turned-megastar had...

Cottonwood Canyon Ranch

by Jana Bommersbach | Apr 1, 2003

The original pioneers came to the land as explorers, as dreamers—claiming a hunk of dirt to make a life. They came, as historians remind us, “not to...

Where’s the Beef?

by Johnny D. Boggs | Apr 1, 2003

The cowboys, longhorns and chuck wagon on the bluff two miles south of Caldwell, Kansas, aren’t making any progress. Since 1995, this trail herd has...