Western Museums Reopen with Hope and Optimism By Candy Moulton For those of us who love visiting museums to see new exhibitions, new additions to...
Western Museums Reopen with Hope and Optimism
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Candy Moulton
True Grit
Eighteen-year-old Susan Magoffin traveled West with her lady’s maid on the Santa Fe Trail. Susan Shelby Magoffin was an unlikely traveler when she...
History, Haunts and Hotels
Old West adventures await across the Cowboy State's colorful Carbon County Quite likely the most gruesome artifact on exhibit in any museum in...
Overland Trails: Fur Trappers to Pony Express Riders
ENJOY THE ADVENTURE AND HISTORICAL SITES BETWEEN ST. LOUIS AND FORT LARAMIE. When we think and write about the over- land trails, we usually...
William Henry Jackson’s West
The great photographer influenced the Western preservation movement and the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872. William Henry Jackson...
Peak to Peak
Bold. Inspirational. Sacred. Rugged.
Western Museums Face the Challenge
Curators, staff and docents work hard to keep their great collections ready for the public.
We Won’t Back Down
Western women led the way for woman suffrage 50 years before 19th Amendment became the law of the land.
On the Bison Trail
The heritage traveler can discover the history and natural wonder of the
great buffalo herds from Texas to Montana.
Pillars of the Plains
A century since women received the right to vote, travel to North Dakota and discover the heroines of the Peace Garden State.
I Will Fight No More Forever
Chief Joseph’s leadership of the Nez Perces from Yellowstone to Bear Paw remains a defining moment in American Indian history.
The Legacy of Yellow Wolf
Learn the truth about one of the great Indian leaders while touring historic sites of the 1877 Nez Perce War.