Joseph Meek and Robert Newell knew the landscape of the West by 1840, since both had been working beaver streams throughout the Rockies and beyond...
Wagons Ho!
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Candy Moulton
Wyoming at 125: Still Bucking
Those of us who are Wyoming-born residents relish the fact that we live in the least-populated state in the nation. As our former governor Mike...
Idaho Celebrates 125 Years of Statehood
Idaho marks a century and a quarter of statehood in 2015 and while much has happened to define the state during the past 125 years, the landscape...
Exploring the Old Oregon Country
David Thompson was fourteen when he began his life in North America as a clerk’s apprentice with the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). He may have been in...
Mystery of Mists and Mountain Men
Writing a biography about John Colter, who left behind no journal, letters or other reminiscences, was the daunting task of Ronald M. Angelin and...
Hail, Columbia!
All across the Pacific Northwest are reminders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06, although no tangible physical evidence remains. There...
Love Song to the Plains and the Desert West
Each year Western Writers of America (WWA) adds a distinguished writer to the Western Writers Hall of Fame (HOF). With the breadth and depth of...
Gems Along the Continental Divide
The backbone of the continent—the Continental Divide—is rocky and rugged in places,...
The Northern Plains to the Pacific Northwest
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington mark their quasquicentennials—125 years since achieving statehood—this year and it is a good time...
Robert J. Conley
December 29, 1940 – February 16, 2014 A great voice in Western Literature and advocate for storytelling by American Indian writers was stilled with...
Westward Across the Divide
Will Bagley, today’s most knowledgeable historian of the overland trails experience, has focused his narrative expertise on the most important point...
Nez Perce in Yellowstone
Emma Cowan awoke early the morning of August 24, 1877, to the sound of strange voices coming from outside the tent she shared with husband George on...