“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...
Trailing the First Indian Person
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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...
“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...
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...
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....
Wickenburg, Arizona
An 1862 gold rush near Yuma, Arizona, spurred the interest of gold prospectors including an Austrian named Henry Wickenburg. His discovery of the...
Whiskey-Runnin’ Whoop-Up Trail
The landscape along the Whoop-Up Trail was “rolling prairie, cut up occasionally by collies [coulees]—covered with short, dried up grass and prickly...
Whiskey-Runnin’ Whoop-Up Trail
The landscape along the Whoop-Up Trail was “rolling prairie, cut up occasionally by collies [coulees]—covered with short, dried up grass and prickly...
Wickenburg, Arizona
An 1862 gold rush near Yuma, Arizona, spurred the interest of gold prospectors including an Austrian named Henry Wickenburg. His discovery of the...
Don’t Miss the Party Train
We know the train was a major player in the settling of the Old West. We know it’s a romantic and wonderful way to travel—just ask anyone why they...
Zane Grey’s Arizona
He could fish with the best of them, knew the outdoors like the back of his hand, played a mean game of baseball and left behind a lasting legacy as...
Party Like a Cowboy
It takes a well-traveled and enthusiastic person whose love of the American West drives him (literally) to seek out the best spots to cultivate his...