Stuart Rosebrook

Rough Drafts 9/13

by Stuart Rosebrook | Aug 9, 2013

Readers will enjoy author Max Evans’s insightful views of life, nature and writing the tragic comedy in Building Your Western Library. As the new...

A Ride on the Wild Side

by Stuart Rosebrook | Aug 6, 2013

Like a heroic Mexican corrido, historian-musician Mark Lee Gardner’s Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West’s...

Rough Drafts 8/13

by Stuart Rosebrook | Jul 9, 2013

Searching for the West, real and imagined, is a theme of our authors and contributors this month. One of the best ways to experience the West is...

Hop Aboard! 18 Historic Train Excursions

by Stuart Rosebrook | Jul 9, 2013

The mystique of the Western railroads have been a part of my life since childhood—from my father’s boyhood tales of traveling the Super Chief to the...

Lone Star Empire

by Stuart Rosebrook | Jul 9, 2013

This should be the seat of future empire!” Republic of Texas Vice President Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar proclaimed in 1838. Straddling the Sunbelt,...

Yellowstone-Grand Teton National Parks

by Stuart Rosebrook | Mar 18, 2013

Travelers seeking solace in the wide open spaces of the American West will discover a wilderness Shangri-La in the Grand Teton and Yellowstone...

Remembering Dobe

by Stuart Rosebrook | Mar 18, 2013

"I’m riding Old Paint, I’m Leading Old Dan. I’m going to Montana just to throw the Houlihan. They feed in the coulees, they water in the draw. Their...

Boot Stompin’, Guitar Pickin’ and Soul Searchin’ Western Roadhouse Country Blues

by Stuart Rosebrook | Feb 14, 2012

From the Bucket of Blood Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada, to the Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas, Texas, to stages at festivals like the Lincoln...

Miranda Lambert

by Stuart Rosebrook | Nov 8, 2011

Miranda Lambert, the latest honky-tonk angel to rock the white man’s Blues, has eyes that haunt you with a stare too old for her age (she’s 28). Her...