Autry Expansion Shot Down The Autry National Center of the American West’s proposed $175 million expansion is dead. The cultural center in Los Angeles, California, dropped the plan in early August in the face of opposition from supporters of the off-site Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the city’s oldest museum, which the Autry owns. The project would have more than doubled the center’s exhibition space and moved its parking lot underground. The opponents feared the expansion wo

October 2009
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- Gary Ernest Smith
- Heading for the Hills
- Famed Forty-Fours Shoot Again
- Following Charlie Russell’s Paintbrush
- River Rock Oasis
- Chinese Food Anyone?
- Preservation: An Artistic Renovation
- The Apache Cupid
- The Boot Seen Round The World
- An Awful Time for Children
- Journey of Hope and Prosperity
- Hauntings in the West
- Slaughter
- Did ID cards exist in the Old West?
- How did Indians break horses, as opposed to the cowboy way?
- Is it true that Wyatt Earp killed only one man in Dodge City, Kansas?
- What is the story behind the folk song “Tom Dooley?”
- I was disappointed to learn Log of a Cowboy was a work of fiction.