After gambling away my earnings from wrangling horses at the notorious Cowboy Bar in Jackson, Wyoming, I shipped my footlocker and saddle freight collect, and thumbed my way to Reno, Nevada. The year was 1947, the heyday of the Nevada six-week divorce, when Reno was the place to go if you wanted to get unhitched. When

June 2010
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- Bad Day at Round Rock
- Framing the West
- Best Photography of the True West
- Why do we have so few photos of Tombstone from the Fly studio?
- Why do cowboys always mount the horse from the left side?
- Do you know anything about lawman Commodore Perry Owens and his missing loot?
- In many Westerns, the women have long hair or long hair pulled back in a bun.
- I’ve been watching the miniseries Comanche Moon.
- In a six-team stagecoach you had the leaders and the wheelers.
- Reno, Nevada
- Jim Hatzell
- Ranch Style on a Budget
- Rich Riding in Cooper Landing
- The Mouse that Roared
- The Old Snake Trade Route
- The Invisible Indian Tribe
- Bent’s Fort’s 50th Anniversary
- Frontier Wedding Menus
- Feel Lucky, Clint?
- What to Wear This Summer
- Glacier’s Great Artists
- Meet Robert J. Conley
- Wyatt Goes Rogue
- Extreme Western History Adventures