Santa Fe, the city that kept Billy the Kid in chains in the city jail and chained Gov. Lew Wallace to his desk so he could finish Ben-Hur, turns 400...
Happy 400th Birthday, Santa Fe
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Johnny D. Boggs
Looping Across Kit Carson’s Southwest
A banner whips in the wind over the main drag as I drive into Taos, New Mexico, and I figure that Kit Carson is getting his due. I should have known...
My Christmas Wish List
I asked for a pony one Christmas. A palomino, if memory serves, but I would have settled for a sorrel. I didn’t get it. I didn’t get that Fort...
Following Charlie Russell’s Paintbrush
It’s a quiet day in Utica. No practical joker has tied tin cans to a dog’s tail and sent that dog running across the street in front of the General...
Hauntings in the West
I’ve been warned that a friendly ghost lurks about the Ellis Country Store Inn in Lincoln, New Mexico. They’ve put me up in the haunted Mill House,...
Top 10 Things To See In Tucson
My continuing search for the True West has led me here: to Bobo’s Restaurant, listening to the staff join some customers in whistling the “Colonel...
Rollin’, Rollin’, Respectin’ Along the Western Trail
I’ve lost count of the museums dedicated to preserving the history and legacy of the Chisholm Trail. I can’t remember all the novels I’ve read about...
Skating In New Directions
I’m trying to avoid being trampled by a zillion tourists at the Santa Fe Indian Market or buried underneath an avalanche of roasted corn ears, and...
10 Ways to Get Your Kids Hooked on History
The video about Anne Frank was over— part of a special exhibit at Bosque Redondo Memorial in Fort Sumner, New Mexico—when my son told me, “Those...
Where’s the Beef?
George Motz, author of Hamburger America, and Bobcat Bite are all about red meat. I met up with Motz at the Bobcat Bite in Santa Fe, New Mexico....
Revisiting Lonesome Dove
Two decades ago, my fellow reporters and I were sitting in the Dallas Times Herald offices--or maybe we were in a sleazy bar near the...
Miles and Miles of Miles City
Everybody loves Montana, and what’s not to love (except, well, maybe Butte)? Flathead Lake and Glacier National Park. Deer Lodge and Livingston. Big...