What comes first to mind when you want to talk Western history? Probably Texas. Caroline Frick guessed that, even while she was working at the...
The Two-Reel Texas Rascal
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Jana Bommersbach
A Dinner to Remember
The “most memorable dinner party in the Old West” just may be Julius Rosch’s stag dinner in Deming, New Mexico, in 1913. To show off the home he had...
Uptop in the Spanish Peaks
One day, a dozen years ago, two sisters from New England decided they “never wanted to wear high heels or pantyhose again.” To keep that promise,...
Who is Alice Paul?
Joan Anderson Meacham remembers being “so irritated and angry.” In 1979, the educated, 44 year old serving on the Advisory Committee on the Status...
The Saloon Keeper
The cowboys and Indians did not catch five-year-old Roger Kislingbury’s attention in 1949, the year his dad bought an RCA television that allowed...
A Mandan Circle Unbroken
Cory Spotted Bear is making up for lost time. He learned about the rich heritage of his Mandan people as an adult, and now he’s bringing back a...
The Windsor Widow
Mark Jones thought he was having a leisurely haircut in the small Colorado town of Del Norte that he and his wife had chosen for their retirement....
Main Street Dreams
Main Street has a particular meaning in America. It’s where everything started, and where great memories still live. For Zuni Gov. Arlen Quetawki,...
A Bawdy Queen of the Row
In its day, the “queen of the row” cost three times more for a trip upstairs than any other bordello charged in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Miss Laura...
Back in the Badlands
He was a 24-year-old New Yorker who wanted to kill a buffalo. That’s how Theodore Roosevelt first came to the Medora area of Dakota Territory in...
Comanche Crusader
The first time LaDonna Harris got involved in a civil rights issue, she was not fighting on behalf of her Comanche people, but for her black...
Hometown Visionaries
The “Wizard of Oz” taught that you don’t have to go far from home to find your dream. Donna and John Sickles know what that means, and Saint Jo,...