Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Well, actually they were roasting on a gas barbecue grill, but those warm chestnuts made good hand warmers in...
The Frontier Christmas Trail
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Candy Moulton
On the Trail of Ancient Artists
The tourists from Canada said they could not “read” the petroglyphs carved onto the rock walls at Valley of Fire in Nevada. “They don’t appear to be...
On the Trail of Solomon Butcher
Solomon Butcher first saw Nebraska in 1880 when he claimed homestead land in northeast Custer County. He had been working in Ohio as a traveling...
The Bloody Bozeman
Trails across the West in the mid-1800s crisscrossed Indian lands, often displacing the people who had been living on the land for generations. The...
Seeking Ute Stories
I sat in the front row of a school auditorium watching girls compete in a princess contest. This was not a competition of fancy hair and youngsters...
Give Me a Homestead
When my grand-mother arrived in Wyoming in March 1903 and moved into the two-room cabin her first husband had built, she must have believed her life...
Candy Moulton
What nobody knows is that my executive director’s retreat is the homestead cabin my Belgian grandmother first lived in when coming to...
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
In Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, Timothy Egan charts the career of Curtis from as far...
On the Trail of Jedediah Smith
The rugged country on the west side of the Teton Range, between Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, is a wilderness area named for Jedediah...
Sleeping in a Dog’s Head
Nesting in the belly of a beagle, in the cabin of a sternwheeler or in a granary surrounded by flower gardens can give you not only a unique night...
Following the Santa Fe Trail
When first opened to traffic in 1821, the Santa Fe Trail linked the American markets along the Missouri River with the long-established Mexican...
A Pathfinder’s Trail
Thousands of overland immigrants to Oregon and California from 1845 to 1849 followed a path first blazed by John C. Fremont. After Congress named...