When Kenneth J. Zoll and his wife Nancy retired to Sedona, Arizona, in 2004, Ken had never heard of “archaeoastronomy.” After all, he had spent 35...
The Sinagua Sunwatchers
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Jana Bommersbach
Potawatomi Trail of Death
They were simply in the way, holding land that emigrating farmers wanted as their own. So the Potawatomi were rounded up and forced to leave their...
Nevada Territory’s Best
You have to go back some 146 years—back to the days of Nevada Territory—to hear the kind of bragging about the St. Charles hotel that is common...
A Good Enough Mine
The silver mine was good enough in 1878 to birth Tombstone, Arizona. And it was good enough in 2007 when the mine opened for public tours, bringing...
America’s Favorite Bone Detective
Alferd Packer has been called “America’s Favorite Cannibal.” Students at the University of Colorado at Boulder memorialized him by naming their...
New Kid on the Block
El Paso, Texas, is a city with a past—far more of a past than most communities in the West can claim. It’s belonged to three countries and has a...
Remember the Baca-Cowboy War?
For most of his life, Henry Martinez had no idea he was part of history. He grew up in the western New Mexico town of Reserve, population 336 today,...
The Kings of the Beaumont
If walls could talk, one of the most interesting stories any walls in the West could tell would come from the Beaumont Hotel in Ouray, Colorado....
Horse Trading for a Better Guthrie
Many nights, during the late 1970s, Ralph McCalmont had to remind himself he was trying to save Oklahoma's "magic city." Opposition was so loud and...
Crookedest Railroad Turns New Bend
Model railroads didn't do a thing for Jim Clark when he was a kid growing up in Milwaukee and California in the 1940s and 1950s, but the real thing...
Saving Dalton Days
Brent Demmitt grew up with Dalton Days in his hometown of Meade, Kansas, and remembers “it was everything to me—it was always a big deal, especially...
Massacre Site Open to the Public
Dozens of honorific titles have dignified the name of Ben Nighthorse Campbell—senator, congressman, judo champion and award-winning jewelry...