A delirious blood-covered cavalry soldier rises up. Firing his pistol, he makes a mad dash to run through the Lakota warriors. One warrior rushes...
Be Like Remington
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Travel & Preservation
Be Like Remington
A delirious blood-covered cavalry soldier rises up. Firing his pistol, he makes a mad dash to run through the Lakota warriors. One warrior rushes...
Following 19th-Century Ute Trails
Nathan Meeker raised a crop of distrust, anger and resentment among the Utes that led to disaster. In one of his first acts as agent, Meeker...
Wanted: Riders for the Pony
On a hot August day, I borrowed a dark bay quarter horse named Jake to participate in a Pony Express Trail Ride from the ghost town of White Oaks to...
Remembering Mountain Meadows
“It was very famous in its day. The whole United States rang with its horrors.” But by 1872, when the classic Roughing It was first published, Mark...
Winnemucca, Nevada
Trappers and Basque sheepherders arrived in today’s Winnemucca, Nevada, in the 1830s, but a Wild Bunch robbery put it on the Old West map. On...
On Oklahoma’s Centennial Trail
And they said it would never last. But here she is, Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, hitting the century mark. Oklahoma, a...
On Oklahoma’s Centennial Trail
And they said it would never last. But here she is, Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, hitting the century mark. Oklahoma, a...
Remembering Mountain Meadows
“It was very famous in its day. The whole United States rang with its horrors.” But by 1872, when the classic Roughing It was first published, Mark...
The Bad Man from Bodie
Bodie is a ghost town—perhaps the West’s best preserved ghost town, where abandoned weather-beaten buildings stand stoically against encroaching...
Remembering Mountain Meadows
“It was very famous in its day. The whole United States rang with its horrors.” But by 1872, when the classic Roughing It was first published, Mark...
The Bad Man from Bodie
Bodie is a ghost town—perhaps the West’s best preserved ghost town, where abandoned weather-beaten buildings stand stoically against encroaching...