This past winter, when I finally made my way to Mystery Castle at 800 E. Mineral Road in Phoenix, Arizona, I was glad to hear I was not the only...
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Travel & Preservation
What’s in a Name
GENE AUTRY If not for his job as a telegrapher at the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, Gene Autry may not have become famous as the Singing...
Phantom Rides Still Rollin’
The floor swings beneath your feet. Steam whistles toot. Train wheels clatter over the rail joints of a track. Your body rocks in the train...
Ride Green
Don’t consider yourself an environmentalist? If you’re a trail rider, you’re more eco-friendly than you realize. Horseback riding is an...
Florence, Arizona
In his teens, in the 1950s, Tom Smith found himself atop the "world's wonder horse"—or rather, the second Champion. After a long day at the Junior...
Following Thomas “Broken Hand” Fitzpatrick
Irish immigrant Thomas Fitzpatrick signed on with William Ashley to head out West in search of beaver in 1823. He traveled up the Missouri River,...
Lander, Wyoming
Author George Eliot (actually a pseudonym for Mary Ann Evans) wrote that "No man can be wise on an empty stomach." I agree. Which is why, if I lived...
Riding the Reef
Once I heard that this was his first ride since being out to pasture all winter, I wasn’t exactly psyched to ride Sawdust. Sawdust might be super...
Pikes Peak or Bust Trail
Sitting in historic Lawrence, I don’t know why those fortune seekers of 1859 ever left Kansas. There’s gold right here, and it’s delicious, as I...
Riding the Border… for Their Lives
After a hard day of patrolling his 80-mile section of the 4,000-mile border between the U.S. and Canada, this U.S. Border Patrol employee is...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2009
10. WICHITA, KS When a town is known today as the “Air Capital of the World”—Wichita is the home of airplane manufacturers Boeing, Cessna, Raytheon...
San Diego, California
“Oh, what’s to become of all my beautiful seven deadly sins? Jesus!” “Exactly,” Asmodeo responded to the tail end of his boss Lucifer’s enraged...