American whipmaking was a thriving industry during the 19th century, beginning with buggy whips in New England and peaking with the mass production...
Whips of the West
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Cynthia Green
Whips of the West
American whipmaking was a thriving industry during the 19th century, beginning with buggy whips in New England and peaking with the mass production...
Wild Ride
The rodeo, from a Spanish word meaning “gather together,” began with arguments between cowpokes about who was best at what. In the 20th century, it...
Tombstone’s Treasure: Silver Mines and Golden Saloons
Everyone knows about the gunfight behind the O.K. Corral, but what was Tombstone really like? Hollywood got it wrong, and True West’s executive...
Yellowstone Denied
The American West was hard country during the 1860s-1890s. Men with uncommon ambition achieved fame and fortune, but Gustavus Doane was not one of...
Following the Royal Road
From San Juan Pueblo, in present-day New Mexico, to Mexico City, Mexico, the Royal Road (El Camino Real) ran 1,500 miles through some of the most...
Following the Royal Road
From San Juan Pueblo, in present-day New Mexico, to Mexico City, Mexico, the Royal Road (El Camino Real) ran 1,500 miles through some of the most...
The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns
This collection of 12 essays examines films from an ecocritical point of view. Ecocriticism generally means exploring the role of nature in a given...
The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns
This collection of 12 essays examines films from an ecocritical point of view. Ecocriticism generally means exploring the role of nature in a given...
New Mexico Past and Future
Don Diego de Vargas wrote in the late 1600s that New Mexico was “remote beyond compare,” and its cultural history had been as complex as its...
New Mexico Past and Future
Don Diego de Vargas wrote in the late 1600s that New Mexico was “remote beyond compare,” and its cultural history had been as complex as its...
Oh, Give me a Home
The song “Home on the Range” is filled with both ideal and real images of the West, and the author uses each stanza to examine the truth of these...