Army engineers bent on establishing a wagon route across Montana and into the Pacific Northwest began surveys and explorations in 1853 for what...
Blazing the Mullan Road
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Travel & Preservation
Art Trumps History Every Time
“Expect great things of art. Hope to be moved by it—to happiness, to reflection; even, if need be, to sorrow. Ask very much of art. And art, great...
Pendleton, Oregon
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...
Cassidy Country’s Cool
It’s hard to get in a Butch Cassidy frame of mind in downtown Denver, but I’m trying. For one, I tell myself that the rooms in the Burnsley...
Dudes and Dudettes Inspire!
Leave it to the cold and snowy environs of Cody, Wyoming, to inspire us. Last January, Sue Lambert and I attended our first Dude Ranchers’...
Passin’ Through Louis L’Amour Land
He sat motionless, starin’ ahead, aware of everythin’ around him. In this country, patience meant survival. Too often, the first to move became the...
Silver City, New Mexico
When silver was discovered above La Cienega de San Vicente (The Marsh of St. Vincent) in the 1870s, Silver City, New Mexico, was born. It soon...
The Klondike Gold Rush Trail
Alaska and the Canadian Northwest remain dangerous country. People get eaten by bears. They die of exposure. Probably a few are trampled by hordes...
A Soirée at the Sheridan Inn
More than 1,000 people stood in the snow outside the historic Sheridan Inn on January 28 to celebrate the town being named True West’s #1 True...
Looking for Joe Leaphorn
Few novelists today are better at exploring the American West and expanding its literature than Tony Hillerman. That’s right. I mean Western...
Custer, Cowboys and the Man in Black
Johnny Cash is playing on the ol’ stereo. Okay, so that’s not news—his music is practically always playing on the stereo. But this is appropriate...
Carson City, Nevada
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...