What was Juan de Oñate thinking when he named the Rio Grande in 1598? Great River? Criminy, at some places it’s not even a mediocre ditch. Explorers...
A River Runs Through History
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Travel & Preservation
National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame
It doesn’t get much better than this: watching fancy marksmanship by Annie Oakley on film that was shot by Thomas Edison. Right off, you know you’re...
Following Cherokee Tracks
I first saw the Cherokee Trail when I was a little girl. One branch of it crossed my family’s ranch near Encampment, Wyoming, and when we were at...
Beating Out the Pilgrims
"El Paso, not Plymouth, held the first Thanksgiving,” declared Peggy Boone of the El Paso, Texas, CVB. “In 1598, the 500 settlers led by Don Juan de...
Hubbard Museum of the American West
When the “Gunfighter” comes to the Hubbard Museum of the American West this summer, it will be the latest in a string of impressive displays that...
From Cow Town to Western Chic
If you have a passion for the Old West, you’ll be right at home in Cheyenne, Wyoming. This city of 53,000 people is the northern anchor of the Front...
Sojourn through the Past and Present
Step off a plane at the San Antonio airport and you’re met by a quartet of cultures—Anglo, Mexican, Spanish and German. To experience the West in...
Where’s the Beef?
The cowboys, longhorns and chuck wagon on the bluff two miles south of Caldwell, Kansas, aren’t making any progress. Since 1995, this trail herd has...
Oklahoma City—Where The Old West Lives
The Wild West is alive, well and thriving in Oklahoma City, where there’s plenty to whet any Western appetite. For starters, don’t miss the National...
Moving Along the Santa Fe Trail
"Far away from my wife and child, and six hundred miles of constant danger in an uninhabited region was not a pleasant prospect for contemplation,”...
Saddle Up, True Believers!
Denver traces its heritage back to the early 1830s, when fur trader Louis Vasquez opened a trading post named Fort Convenience near the confluence...
Arizona’s Cowboy and Indian Trail
If you had journeyed through Southern Arizona back in the 1880s, you wouldn’t have found the place nearly as hospitable as it is today. Restless...