I guess you could say Zebulon Pike made a grand circle tour in 1806-07, although that wasn’t his intention when he set out on a reconnaissance of...
Zebulon Pike’s Wandering Explorations
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Travel & Preservation
On a Mission in San Antone
Dressed in cowboy hat and boots, I’m walking across the San Antonio Missions Visitors Center parking lot with my four-year-old son when a docent...
Top 10 Western Meals to Eat
Out of work cowhands used to ride the grub line, which is pretty much what I do for a living. ’Cause I like to eat. And a body can find a whole lot...
Austin, Texas
Waterloo, Texas? Yes, that’s what Austin went by back in 1837 before Mirabeau B. Lamar renamed the city two years later in honor of the “Father of...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2007
Given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts. We hope this award will encourage federal, state and local...
On a Mission in San Antone
Dressed in cowboy hat and boots, I’m walking across the San Antonio Missions Visitors Center parking lot with my four-year-old son when a docent...
All the World’s a Stage on the Overland Trail
Then the rattling of the coach, the clatter of our six horses’ hoofs, and the driver’s crisp commands, awoke to a louder and stronger emphasis; and...
Guthrie, Oklahoma
To encourage our readers to visit this year’s winners of our Top 10 True Western Towns award announced in Jan/Feb, each issue will showcase the...
Fort Courage Isn’t Here
Bob Bluthardt is used to the question, “Where is the wall?” After all, visitors have seen those pine palisade walls in B-Westerns, and plenty of...
Following the Bootmaker Trail
Tourists go on whiskey tours in Scotland, bootmaker Lee Miller tells me, so why not take a custom bootmaker tour in America? Could get a little...
The Great Northfield Raid
Robbing the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, wasn’t the best career move The Boys ever made. The Boys included Frank and Jesse James,...
Helper, Utah
To encourage our readers to visit this year’s winners of our Top 10 True Western Towns award announced in Jan/Feb, each issue will showcase the...