If we had played word association five years ago and said “Deadwood,” most people would have responded, “Wild Bill Hickok.” Thanks to HBO, though,...
Deadwood, SD
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Travel & Preservation
Tracking the Great Bear
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote often of encounters with Ursus horribilis—grizzly bears—as they made their pioneering journey across the...
Tracking the Great Bear
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote often of encounters with Ursus horribilis—grizzly bears—as they made their pioneering journey across the...
Sacking Lawrence
The clerk at the bookstore recommends that I grab supper and a beer at the Free State Brewing Company. “Are you serious?” I ask. He assures me it’s...
Sacking Lawrence
The clerk at the bookstore recommends that I grab supper and a beer at the Free State Brewing Company. “Are you serious?” I ask. He assures me it’s...
St. Joseph, MO
St. Joseph touts itself as the “home where the Pony Express began and Jesse James ended.” With a new movie starring Brad Pitt as Jesse James on the...
Trailing the First Indian Person
“Yes, we have Standing Bear, too” Betty Davis tells me when I spy the photograph of the legendary Ponca chief at the Douglas County Historical...
St. Joseph, MO
St. Joseph touts itself as the “home where the Pony Express began and Jesse James ended.” With a new movie starring Brad Pitt as Jesse James on the...
Trailing the First Indian Person
“Yes, we have Standing Bear, too” Betty Davis tells me when I spy the photograph of the legendary Ponca chief at the Douglas County Historical...
Madonna of the Western Trails
Dragging a weary child and cradling a baby, she knew how to fire a weapon and kept her gun close. Just exactly where she was going, she didn’t know....
Mellonsfolly’s Wild West
When the creation legend of a country consists of its North Island being the fish, the South Island, the canoe in which the fisherman sat, and...
“Western Movie” Night … at the Museum
For 50 years, Teddy Roosevelt has had his eye on Sacagawea. When Larry, the nightshift guard at Roosevelt’s namesake museum, convinces the former...