Beat the stampede to Mesquite, the official Rodeo Capital of Texas, for the Mesquite Championship Rodeo finale on Aug. 2…
Heritage Travel
High Country Adventure Discover the Old West while relaxing in 10 of our favorite cool, mountain getaways.
Long before air conditioning, automobiles, interstates and high-speed air travel, American transcontinental railroad com…
The Adventures of Calamity Jane Discover the wild woman of the West in a circuitous tour of Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana.
Born in Missouri in 1856, Martha Canary came west with her family, spent part of her childhood in the Montana goldfields…
What’s In a Name? The origins of the alias Dynamite Dick.
Not much is known about the Oklahoma outlaw named Dan Clifton. Where and when was he born? How did he become an outlaw? …
Placerville, California Discover the historic gold rush community and its glittering history.
Gold mining birthed this settlement, first called Dry Diggins. After James Marshall’s 1848 gold strike at Sutter’s Mill …
Pueblo Grande Celebrates 90 Years Phoenix’s Archaeological Gem Protects the Area’s First City.
The second Phoenix is America’s newest modern city. The first Phoenix was among its oldest—a thriving community 1,000 ye…
Brutal Payback Jack Slade used Jules Beni for target practice.
Jack Slade ran the Central Overland stage stop at Julesburg, Colorado. His predecessor, Jules Beni (the town was named f…
True Western Towns: Glasgow, Montana The Old West thrives in the wild river country of the Missouri Breaks.
This town in the wild lonesome of northeast Montana, 60 miles from the Canadian border, earned the attention of the worl…
Get Western! Cowboy up in a dozen of our favorite Old West towns.
I remember seeing my Wyoming-raised father quietly touching his hand to the brim of his cowboy hat, or tipping it in a p…
Toppenish, Washington The Yakima Valley city preserves and celebrates its Western past.
The central Washington town of Toppenish came into being when a Yakama Indian named Josephine Lillie Parker sold part of…