Travel across Arkansas, Oklahoma and Colorado and discover the real and imagined locations of the iconic novel and 1969 film’s locations. All Images...
On the True Grit Trails
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Johnny D. Boggs
Trailing Them North
Follow the Western Cattle Trail from Bandera, Texas, to Miles City, Montana. All Images by Johnny D. Boggs Unless Otherwise Indicated Blame...
Elmer Kelton Country
A trip tracking the Texas author across the Lone Star State is sure to create memorable stories. The frontier town of Mobeetie was taking on some of...
Arizona’s Yavapai-Apache War
A tour of the conflict’s historic sites is a poignant reminder of how unmerciful war was meted out against the state’s Native people. ...
Bouncing Back After a Year of Online Displays, Curators Eagerly Await Visitors
Bouncing Back After a Year of Online Displays, Curators Eagerly Await Visitors. After more than a year of COVID-19 restrictions, Western art museums...
Spark on the Prairie
Hit the road across Oklahoma and Texas to discover the history behind the Warren Wagon Train Raid and the Kiowa Indian Trial of 1871. It...
Remembering Larry McMurtry
The life and times of the legendary Western writer and the legacy of Lonesome Dove. “Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in...
On the Santa Fe Trail: 1821-2021
The bicentennial of the National Historic Trail is a great reason to hit the road and rediscover why it is the West’s original “Mother Road.” When...
Following Phil Coe’s Trail to Death
Have fun trailing the Lone Star outlaw from Texas to Kansas. Charles E. Rankin, retired editor of the University of Oklahoma Press and astute...
Into Max Evan’s Hi Lo Country
Hit the road and discover the historic and mystic lands of New Mexico’s legendary author. Technically, Chama isn’t in the Hi Lo Country, but...
On the Trail to Texas Statehood
Discover the Lone Star State, from Nacogdoches to Austin , 175 years later .
Western Art in Pandemics, Then and Now
Museum curators, gallery owners, and artists remain optimistic about the future.