I asked for a pony one Christmas. A palomino, if memory serves, but I would have settled for a sorrel. I didn’t get it. I didn’t get that Fort...
My Christmas Wish List
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Art, Guns and Culture
Famed Forty-Fours Shoot Again
Until 1900, one out of every four Colt’s Single Action Army (SAA) revolvers was produced in .44-40 caliber. The .44 WCF (.44 Winchester Central...
River Rock Oasis
Fifteen years ago Tom and Linda Whitaker organized the Heber City Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Buckaroo Fair, but they had been collecting Western...
Chinese Food Anyone?
“I’ve known of Chinese cooks, out on the big ranches in Eastern Oregon, that, when full of hop or bad whiskey, would chase everybody with a big...
Preservation: An Artistic Renovation
An Artistic Renovation In 1940 Olaf Wieghorst found his calling as a Western artist. Born in Denmark in 1899, he emigrated to the U.S. in his...
The Boot Seen Round The World
In the song “London Homesick Blues,” a broke cowboy is stuck in the cold, damp, far-from-Texas streets of England. He yearns to “go home with the...
Journey of Hope and Prosperity
Imagine a China without oil paintings, and you would be recalling the days before the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, when Mao...
Hauntings in the West
I’ve been warned that a friendly ghost lurks about the Ellis Country Store Inn in Lincoln, New Mexico. They’ve put me up in the haunted Mill House,...
Spirit West River Lodge
When Lynn and R.G. Finney’s sons were small, the family lived in a Victorian-sized house that had belonged to her grandmother. When they had an...
Vaquero Firepower
During Mexico’s Revolution of 1910, the rebel forces fought for their freedom with a vast variety of firearms that ran the gamut from blackpowder...
Preservation: Saving the Neighborhood
Saving the Neighborhood Wyoming was still living the Wild West when the state’s first governor’s mansion was built in Cheyenne in 1904. It housed...
Puttin’ Up the Pantry
“I have just bought fifty-seven pounds of apples to make jelly for the winter; they were two and a half cents a pound,” wrote Mrs. E.M.H. of Lake...