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 9/15
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Stuart Rosebrook
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...
Historic Markers and Back Roads in Land of Enchantment
I love driving the back roads of America and a good guidebook always makes the trip better when you get off the Interstate down a good blue highway...
Mysterious Desert View Tower Still Inspires Roadside Visitors
I’ve traveled Interstate 8 between Phoenix and San Diego dozens of times and every time I reach the crest of the mountains just west of Ocotillo,...
Trails to the Truth
Historians and aficionados of the American West must have been surprised when they first heard that FOX News’s Bill O’Reilly was going to follow up...