Explore mining history from Cripple Creek to Grand Encampment. It happened all across the West: a spark from a stove or fireplace set one wooden...
Rocky Mountain Bonanzas
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Travel & Preservation
Best of the West 2022: Heritage Travel
Adventures Abound! Pack your bags and head West to discover firsthand where history happened. The American West conjures romantic...
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
With the boom of a cannon at Fort Reno at noon on April 22, 1889, more than 50,000 settlers rushed into the former Indian Territory of Oklahoma....
Elmer Kelton Country
A trip tracking the Texas author across the Lone Star State is sure to create memorable stories. The frontier town of Mobeetie was taking on some of...
Cave Creek, Arizona
Horses and Harleys merge “Where the West Lives” in the Old West suburb of metro Phoenix. Scottsdale, which has gotten too big for its...
Flight for Freedom
Follow the Northern Cheyennes’ desperate and deadly dash for home from Oklahoma to Montana. The hot August 1878 weather bore down at Darlington...
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
The oil-enriched town preserves and celebrates its Western heritage. The 150,000 Boomers and Sooners who flooded into the Oklahoma...
Arizona’s Yavapai-Apache War
A tour of the conflict’s historic sites is a poignant reminder of how unmerciful war was meted out against the state’s Native people. ...
Virginia City, Montana
This city struck it rich with a well-preserved ghost town. The Cartwrights and Bonanza made Virginia City, Nevada, famous. But the other...
Spark on the Prairie
Hit the road across Oklahoma and Texas to discover the history behind the Warren Wagon Train Raid and the Kiowa Indian Trial of 1871. It...
Medora, North Dakota
Theodore Roosevelt’s Western home is where legends were made—and still celebrated. It’s hard to imagine a Western town with a more unusual backstory...
True Grit
Eighteen-year-old Susan Magoffin traveled West with her lady’s maid on the Santa Fe Trail. Susan Shelby Magoffin was an unlikely traveler when she...