GENE AUTRY If not for his job as a telegrapher at the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, Gene Autry may not have become famous as the Singing...
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Phantom Rides Still Rollin’
The floor swings beneath your feet. Steam whistles toot. Train wheels clatter over the rail joints of a track. Your body rocks in the train...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2009
10. WICHITA, KS When a town is known today as the “Air Capital of the World”—Wichita is the home of airplane manufacturers Boeing, Cessna, Raytheon...
The Deadwood Stage
“Rumbling noisily through the black canyon road to Deadwood, at an hour long past midnight, came the stage from Cheyenne, loaded down with...
Great Secrets of Our National Parks
Through blowing snow, a pair of cowboys rode across the top of a mesa, searching for stray cattle. Quaker rancher Richard Wetherill and his...
Bookin’ It
Granville Stuart was a lot of things—merchant, miner, rancher, diplomat, vigilante—and an avid reader. His Montana cabin was filled with books...
Death Valley 49ers Centennial
Jimmy Stewart left Bedford Falls and headed to Death Valley in Nevada and California. He wouldn't need the help of a guardian angel there. The actor...
Grand Stations
Railroad depots need their own Ada Louise Huxtable, even though the woman at the forefront of the historic preservation movement, and a...
Garrett’s Death Site Saved
Between Las Cruces and the San Augustin Pass, off U.S. Route 70, a historical marker commemorates the site of Pat Garrett’s death. The actual spot...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2008
Given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts. We hope this award will not only encourage federal, state and...
Tombstone, Arizona
In 1877, Ed Schieffelin discovered silver at a site where soldiers from Camp Huachuca warned all he would find was his tombstone. (That was a $30...
Grass Valley, California
Located in the heart of California’s Gold Country, Grass Valley was once a small settlement of fortune hunters who arrived just after the Gold Rush...