Chinese laborers played a prominent role in the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, and they were equally instrumental in mining...
Riches for Chinese Miners
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Trailing Alfred Jacob Miller in the West
Alfred Jacob Miller was 27 years old when Scotsman Capt. William Drummond Stewart visited his Baltimore studio in 1837. Stewart thought his upcoming...
Dreams of Gold on the Starvation Trail
Gold seekers intent on finding the quickest ways to the Colorado gold fields forged the Smoky Hill Trail, but many of them paid a terrible price in...
Ranch Style on a Budget
Jodi Finkenbinder did not just imagine what her new home could be, but she actually rolled up her shirt sleeves and helped create it. Starting with...
The Old Snake Trade Route
Indian trade routes criss-crossed the country generations before any Euroamerican travelers arrived on foot, horseback or via covered wagons. The...
Western Flair the Duke Would Appreciate
John Wayne had solid ranch connections in Arizona. He and partner Louie Johnson once owned the Red River Ranch, which included more than 14,000...
A Mind-Boggling Casa of History
It takes a special house to hold the 8,000 books and the priceless photographs and Indian objects collected by our Emeritus Publisher Robert...
Living Like the Boggs
What better place for writer Johnny D. Boggs and realtor Lisa Smith to live than the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the edge of a greenbelt?...
Following Calamity Jane
Born in Missouri in 1856 Martha Canary came west with her family, spent part of her childhood in the Montana gold fields near Virginia City and...
Cactus Camp
The design for Cactus Camp figuratively took shape on a bar napkin at the Roadrunner Bar in New River, Arizona. Kit Carson (no relation to the...
A Historian’s Dream House
The defining features in the 4,440-square-foot Georgetown, Texas, home of historians Robert Utley and Melody Webb are the bookshelves. Their custom...
River Rock Oasis
Fifteen years ago Tom and Linda Whitaker organized the Heber City Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Buckaroo Fair, but they had been collecting Western...