6. Van of Enchantment Statewide (based in Santa Fe, New Mexico) If people can’t make it to a museum, bring the museum to them. That’s pretty much the philosophy of this mobile museum, which started hitting the state’s 33 counties in 1997. “Riding the Rails” was the second of the van’s three-part series “The History of Travel in New Mexico,” providing a touchy-feely enterprise for children who could hold railroad spikes. This year, the van will bring Route 66 to people acros

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- What did Old West towns do with the carcasses of dead horses?
- Who was Urilla Sutherland, the first wife of Wyatt Earp?
- Why didn’t Winchester chamber any of its rifles in .45 Colt?
- What happened to Maj. Marcus Reno’s command during the Battle of Little Big Horn in June 1876?
- What is forty-rod whiskey?
- Did cowboys place their rifle scabbards in the front or back of the saddle?
- I’m intrigued by the story of Dora Hand, the Dodge City saloon singer. Do any photos of her exist?
- Hot Springs, South Dakota
- Mark Hall-Patton
- Confronting the Fiddle Player: Did Rex Rideout Make it Out of Cowboys & Aliens Alive?
- 1961’s The Comancheros
- The Legend of Hell’s Gate
- Tarantino’s “Southern” Western
- The Warrior’s Way
- Rango
- The “Heart” of Cowboys & Aliens
- National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Wrangler Winners
- Killed by Indians 1871
- Payback at Morning Peak
- The First Dance
- Olivia Wilde
- The Sierra Packers
- A Screaming Session at Cowboys & Aliens
- Conflict on the Range
- Galveston’s Guardian Angel
- Survivors of an Old West Shoot-Out
- Shot for Snoring?
- Eating Along the Oregon Trail
- TB Havens in the Old West
- Face-Off on Facebook
- Boot Scoot & Boogie
- Cowboys and Monsters
- Get Along, Little Buffalo!
- The Bandit Queen’s Treasures
- Top 10 Western Museums of 2011
- Billy the Kid Stays in the States!