Meghan Saar
Fort Davis, Texas

Fort Davis, Texas

“Most people still don’t believe that there are mountains in Texas,” says Larry Francell, the just-retired director at the Museum of the Big Bend in...

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Buffalo, Wyoming

Buffalo, Wyoming

Buffalo, Wyoming-population 4,480-is the kind of town that rallies around its community members, even when memories are all they have left of the...

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Buffalo, Wyoming

Buffalo, Wyoming

Buffalo, Wyoming-population 4,480-is the kind of town that rallies around its community members, even when memories are all they have left of the...

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Crossed Sabres

Crossed Sabres

The two crossed sabres insignia, cutting edge up, marked the hats of two different cavalrymen from the beginning and the end of the Indian Wars. The...

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Bandera, Texas

Bandera, Texas

When you ask Genie Strickland, a fifth-generation Banderan, how a town of 957 people can produce so much Western heritage entertainment, she breaks...

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Reno, Nevada

Reno, Nevada

When Mella Rothwell Harmon wrote her thesis for the University of Nevada in Reno in 1998, she tackled Reno’s divorce trade at dude ranches during...

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The Dalles, Oregon

The Dalles, Oregon

Susan Buce jokingly dubs herself the “History Queen,” yet her breadth of knowledge of the Columbia Gorge region is indeed impressive. The...

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Valuable Vaqueros

Valuable Vaqueros

On June 19, 1867, the day after Joseph McCoy purchased 250 acres of land in what would become the cowtown of Abilene, Kansas, the last emperor of...

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