What nobody knows is that my executive director’s retreat is the homestead cabin my Belgian grandmother first lived in when coming to...
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Candy Moulton
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...
Bicycling the Oregon Trail
Tens of thousands of people organized at Independence Square in Independence,...
Custer & Cody Country
You’re Riding Shotgun With… Candy Moulton, a fourth-generation Westerner, who was reared on the Wyoming ranch her grandparents...
Conflict on the Range
You wouldn’t know it today when you drive across Colorado and Wyoming, seeing cattle grazing with sheep herds nearby, that a century ago such...
Oregon Trail Endangered
I have spent years traveling overland trails in the West; some might say I have an obsession for traveling three miles an hour in a covered wagon....
Forts of the Northern Plains
I have a hankering to put some more miles on my car, so I fill my gas tank and head west to visit some of the forts established in the Intermountain...
Following Dinosaur Tracks in the West
“Daddy, Daddy! Look! There are dinosaurs!” I could not keep myself from grinning when the little boy raced into the museum gallery in Bozeman,...