At 10 p.m. on September 7, 1878, Little Wolf, Dull Knife, Wild Hog and over 300 Northern Cheyenne warriors, women and children fled Darlington...
Cheyenne Breakout
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Travel & Preservation
West Texas in the Daylight
All those years when I hung my hat in Dallas / Fort Worth, I told myself the best way to drive across West Texas was at night. I mean, what’s there...
Trailing Doc Holliday through Colorado
Doc Holliday first saw Denver in 1876. Although his reputation was made in Texas, Dodge City and certainly Tombstone, it was to Colorado that he...
Elusive Witch’s Brew
You’d think it would be easy to find the southernmost point on the Snake River. Just look at a map and ... presto! You can put your finger on it....
Ridin’ the Rails
There was a time in the Old West when the arrival of the railroad was as exciting as it got—the coming of the train was much anticipated and...
New Mexico’s Journey of the Dead
The Spanish called it Jornada del Muerto, “Journey of the Dead,” and traveling through Southern New Mexico’s desert, you might think it’s aptly...
Come and Take It
Crockett ... Travis ... Houston ... Bowie. ... The Texas Independence Trail is about icons, so it’s only fitting that the first tombstone I notice...
Railroad Rodeo
Speed across the plains behind the world’s largest steam locomotive to the legendary Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo and relive a Western tradition...
On the Edge of the Abyss
It is late August, but the air is crisp as I board the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in Durango, Colorado. The firemen are already...
Has the Lost Dutchman Mine Been Found?
“This bug is to make my fortune,” he continued, with a triumphant smile, “to reinstate me in my family possessions. Is it any wonder then, that I...
On the Trail of Laura Ingalls Wilder
“As far as I could see, covered wagons stood one beyond another in a long, long line. Behind them and over them, high over half the sky, a yellow...
More Buffalo than Gold
Where have all the buffalo gone? You see, I first visited the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota in the late 1980s—before legalized gambling...