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...
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Travel & Preservation
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...
Oregon Trail: Independence, Missouri, to Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
Hopeful faces turned westward more than 150 years ago as the greatest pioneer movement in history began along the Oregon Trail. Although the people...
Day Trip to Taos
Taos is about as close as you can come to visiting a foreign country in the United States. Nestled at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in...
Day Trip to Cody
Stroll down the main street of Cody, Wyoming and you will notice it has a different ambiance than many of the other Old West towns that beckon...
Virginia City
You might not be asked to sign a paper pledging allegiance to the Union when you enter Virginia City, Montana, but then again you could be. Born...
The Oregon Trail
Day after day, week after week, we went through the same weary routine of breaking camp at daybreak, yoking the oxen, cooking our meagre rations...
Big Bend in a day
This is where the Comanche War Trail crossed the Texas-Mexico border . . . buffalo soldiers fought Apaches . . . Judge Roy Bean ruled . . ....
Surviving The Loneliest Road In America
So, if you choose to make this 287-mile historical adventure across the state (which, by the way, offers a view of the most beautiful mountain...