When you ask Genie Strickland, a fifth-generation Banderan, how a town of 957 people can produce so much Western heritage entertainment, she breaks...
Bandera, Texas
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Travel & Preservation
Reno, Nevada
When Mella Rothwell Harmon wrote her thesis for the University of Nevada in Reno in 1998, she tackled Reno’s divorce trade at dude ranches during...
Rich Riding in Cooper Landing
I feel rather adventurous while horse riding in the Cooper Landing area on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, but I have nothing on Charles E. Chapman, who...
The Old Snake Trade Route
Indian trade routes criss-crossed the country generations before any Euroamerican travelers arrived on foot, horseback or via covered wagons. The...
Extreme Western History Adventures
“Oh my God, Morgan Earp has been killed!” The cry reverberated through the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. John Clum, town mayor and editor of the...
Fort Pierre, South Dakota
Bone-chilling cold held Fort Pierre, South Dakota, in its icy grip the evening of January 27, 2010, as six men met in the city’s cozy Log Cabin...
Grape History on a Sunset Ride
As I sauntered through an open meadow on Romer, a black-and-white Tennessee Walking horse, I thought about the first ranchers who lived in the...
Top 10 Western Museums of 2010
I hadn’t seen lines like this since I tried to get into a bookstore in Dallas, Texas, where actor Jimmy Stewart was autographing copies of his book...
The Walls of a Prison Will Never Hold Me
Angola, Louisiana, might not be considered the West to some folks, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen any roundup get as Western as its prison...
The Dalles, Oregon
Susan Buce jokingly dubs herself the “History Queen,” yet her breadth of knowledge of the Columbia Gorge region is indeed impressive. The...
On the Trading Post Trail
They were cultural centers, these trading posts on the Navajo reservation. “A community place for people to meet, get their mail, maybe make a phone...
A Modern Stagecoach Adventure
How comfortable would the ride really be inside a Concord stagecoach? I’m not sure if I buy into Ed Heimann’s claim that the Concord is the “Rolls...