Top 10 True Western Towns of 2014

True Western Towns to Know Red Cloud, Nebraska Catch a show at the 1885 opera house or stroll through more than 600 acres of never-been-plowed native prairie in Red Cloud, the childhood home of Willa Cather, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of O Pioneers! and other classics. Telluride, Colorado Originally a mining camp called “Columbia,” Telluride boomed when the railroad arrived in 1890. But after the silver market went bust, the town reinvented itself—first as a ski resort, then