Indian trade routes criss-crossed the country generations before any Euroamerican travelers arrived on foot, horseback or via covered wagons. The...
The Old Snake Trade Route
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Candy Moulton
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...
Spirit West River Lodge
When Lynn and R.G. Finney’s sons were small, the family lived in a Victorian-sized house that had belonged to her grandmother. When they had an...
Mapping the Black Hills: Valentine T. McGillycuddy
Valentine T. McGillcuddy, weak and on the verge of becoming an alcoholic after a stint as a doctor at the Wayne County Insane Asylum in Detroit,...
Pueblo Revival Living
People build homes in the West for many reasons. Mark and Linda Miller designed their 7,500-square foot home and adjacent casita in Santa Fe, New...
Living in a 100-Year-Old Mercantile
You might say the nesting instinct drew Lori Huff and her family back to Ten Sleep, Wyoming (population 304), but their journey was also motivated...