Jodi Finkenbinder did not just imagine what her new home could be, but she actually rolled up her shirt sleeves and helped create it. Starting with...
Ranch Style on a Budget
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Art, Guns and Culture
The Mouse that Roared
If any single gun had an impact on the history of the West, it was the palm-sized Deringer pistol that John Wilkes Booth used in 1865 to assassinate...
Frontier Wedding Menus
“One of the prettiest home weddings of the season was that of Miss Etta Scofield and Roy H. Tracey, Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock at the home of...
What to Wear This Summer
I wear a sombrero, silk neckerchief, fringed buckskin shirt, sealskin chaparajos or riding trousers [sic]; alligator hide boots; and with my pearl...
Glacier’s Great Artists
“Railway stations and hotels served in a real sense as the first “art galleries” in the West, at a time before traditional art institutions were...
Meet Robert J. Conley
I knew Robert J. Conley was not your typical Western writer when he came up to me and fellow author John D. Nesbitt at an Albuquerque bar and...
Western Flair the Duke Would Appreciate
John Wayne had solid ranch connections in Arizona. He and partner Louie Johnson once owned the Red River Ranch, which included more than 14,000...
Great Guns in the Panhandle
What was once the vast, empty, grassy plains country of West Texas is now the quiet little town of Canyon and the home to the Panhandle-Plains...
As American as Apple Pie
“Before we were out of the mountains, we met a relief train from the Willamette Valley...as flour was being offered at $1.00 per pound, and as we...
Straws in the Wind
“One can thresh the straw of history until he is well worn out, and also is running some risk of wearing others out who may have to listen. So I...
Custer Portrait Shares a Hidden Story
“Our house at Fort Lincoln, Dakota” is a notation that many may not pay much attention to, other than as an identification of a depicted location....
Centennial Celebration
Of the quotes about Glacier National Park, I remember John Muir’s writing: “Give a month at least to this precious reserve. The time will not be...