Elko got started in 1868 as a railroad town along northeast Nevada’s Humboldt River. But calling it a town might’ve been stretching the matter. It...
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Travel & Preservation
The Mormon Handcart Migration
When the Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, abandoned Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1846, they made a pledge to gather all...
When’s the Last Time You Visited Last Chance, Montana?
WHEN'S THE LAST TIME YOU VISITED LAST CHANCE, MONTANA? Never, you say. Naw, that isn't right. This writer was there a couple years ago. Of course,...
A Pioneer Paradise
When pioneers settled on Kanab Creek in the late 1850s, they faced hostile Navajo, Paiute and Hopi Indians. Several attempts at settlement ended in...
An Audacious Adventure
Wilson Price Hunt set out from St. Louis in early summer 1811 with a company of 56 men, an Indian woman, Marie Dorion, and her two children. He...
Western Events for October 2016
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOWS CONFLUENCE OF CULTURES IN THE AMERICAN WEST: A SELECTION OF CONTEMPORARY...
On the Trail of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company
A hundred young men walked into the Rocky Mountains and became legends of the West when they responded to William Henry Ashley’s call for...
Western Events for September 2016
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOWS Locals First: Western Art of Jim Bagley & Jenny Gummersall Durango,...
Queen of the Cowtowns
When Dodge City’s founders staked out their vision for a town near Fort Dodge in 1872, its first business was George Hoover’s bar. He sold whiskey...
Western Events for August 2016
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West! ART SHOWS ART & WINE IN THE COOL PINES Cloudcroft, NM, August 6-7: This 1898...
Building the Central Pacific Railroad
A century and a half ago, steel rails began stretching across the landscape to link this nation. In an 1832 article published by the New York...
Butch Cassidy and the Last Standing Bank
Butch Cassidy, was given the name Robert Leroy Parker at birth, born to a poor Mormon family in Beaver, Utah. As a teen Parker set off to find a new...