Historic saloons, hotels and ranches are ready to serve you up a slice of the Old West. If you’re like me, tendrils of the Old West wrap...
Pack Your Bags, Time to Get Western!
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Melody Groves
Ridin’ the Rails
Historic Train Excursions Coast to Coast From North Carolina to California, Montana to Texas, “ridin’ the rails” is reminiscent of days gone by,...
Kansas’s Santa Fe Trail
Traversing the Sunflower State from Leavenworth to Dodge City Timing, as they say, is everything and that certainly proved true for Missouri trader...
Tamer of Raton Pass
“Uncle Dick” Wootton helped build a nation with his Santa Fe Trail toll road. Well past midnight, everyone in the wagon train was snoring. First...
Ride That Train!
Towering pines whirl past an open window ushering in pine-scented breezes. The click-clack of train wheels underneath relaxes riders. Puffs of...
Wild Western Action
Review of Eric Red’s Hanging Fire.
Butterfield’s Grand Adventure
“Remember Boys, Nothing on God’s Earth Should Stop the United States Mail.”
Kansas’s Highways of History
America’s West, in the early 1800s, ended at the Missouri River. Men knew there was another West—farther west—but venturing there proved...
Borderland Mystery
If These Walls Could Talk by James D. Crownover is a complex fictional story with a plethora of characters set in southern New Mexico and Arizona in...
Life Lessons from Western Lawmen
Weaving together a fascinating series of Western manhunts, author Chris Enss in Principles of Posse Management: Lessons from the Wild West reveals...
History, Heritage and Hospitality
Saloons, pubs and hotels played a major role in shaping the West. While saloons generally weren’t the largest buildings in a town, they were the...
Jerked to Jesus
Hollywood couldn’t write an Old West character better than Milton J. Yarberry, the first town marshal for Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory....