The Heartbeat of America The small towns of the American West are where you will discover the people and places dedicated to preserving our Western heritage and way of life. I was raised in the suburbs of one of the nation’s most Western cities, Los Angeles, but I spent my summers learning to ride on a cattle ranch outside of Prescott, Arizona. Later, I began driving cross-country for college and since then have driven over 20,000 miles across our great country, leaving the interstates behin


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