Museums across the West have a common theme this year: New. It takes years to plan, fund, develop and install museum exhibitions, and the fruit of...
The Top 10 Western Museums of 2015
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Stuart Rosebrook
Rough Drafts 9/15
In June, I attended the Western Writers of America annual conference in Lubbock, Texas. The thriving city of the Southern Plains not only lives up...
Rough Drafts 8/15
A century ago, World War I was raging across Europe. Revolution had erupted in Mexico and China, and Ireland and Russia would soon boil over in...
Rough Drafts 9/15
In June, I attended the Western Writers of America annual conference in Lubbock, Texas. The thriving city of the Southern Plains not only lives up...
Rough Drafts 8/15
A century ago, World War I was raging across Europe. Revolution had erupted in Mexico and China, and Ireland and Russia would soon boil over in...
A Frontier Without Borders
Where is the West and what defines it? Great questions that historians love to debate and have yet to be definitively answered. A recent released...
Eastwood in Hollywood
Patrick McGilligan has updated his 2002 biography Clint: The Life and Legend (OR Books, $25) with new chapters on the Academy Award winning Western...
New Adventures on the Old Oregon Trail
Many people dream of leaving the hustle and bustle of everyday life, moving off the grid and traveling in a style and pace not seen along American...
An Award Winning Western Musical is Left on the Cutting–Room Floor
Sixty years ago the award-winning Rogers and Hammerstein Broadway musical Oklahoma! was being finalized by Magna Theatre Corporation for theatrical...
Traveling Western Art Exhibit
When I travel I always make time in my schedule to visit local museums. Recently, I was in San Diego with my family and we enjoyed a visit to Balboa...
Historic Ranch House Open Twice a Year at Trinity Site
Seventy years ago, the McDonald-Schmidt Ranch House at the White Sands Missile Range (adjacent to the White Sands National Monument) in Socorro...
Phoenix Novelist Mines Muses of Art and Writing with Lost Dutchman Novel
Writers sometimes discover their muse on their own, but sometimes their muse finds them. Arizona artist-writer Pat Parish would probably tell you...