The name Fenimore Chatterton doesn’t ring many bells in Western history, but it does around Saratoga, Wyoming. The businessman and politician...
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Travel & Preservation
Oregon at 160
When wealthy trapper Ewing Young died in 1841 in what is Oregon today, he had no apparent heirs, and there was no way to determine how to handle his...
Fire Engulfs Paramount Western Ranch
The cost in human life and property from the fires that blazed through California in November 2018 cannot yet be calculated. The cost to Western...
Cochise, Cowboys and Cavalry
The first thing you notice about Willcox, Arizona, is the wine. Wineries. Wine-tasting rooms. Wine festivals. Wine has practically taken over this...
Kingsville, Texas
No Hollywood writer could invent the life of Richard King. He was born in New York in 1824 into an Irish family so poor that, at age 9, he...
Tombstone 25—A Western Classic’s Reunion
It’s not often that a movie becomes a cult classic almost immediately after its release, but such was the case with the 1993 motion picture...
Raised from the Dead
Looting, wildfires, pollution, vandalism, time, the elements—Western ghost towns have lots of enemies. Thankfully, they’ve also got friends like...
Following the Bent Brothers
So much of the Western story begins in St. Louis, and the tale of William and Charles Bent is no exception. From a family of eleven children, the...
Western Events for November 2018
Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West this November. Pictured above: Cowboys on Main Bandera, TX, November 3,10, 17 &...
True West’s Hometown
Residents of Cave Creek revere the town’s frontier beginnings and love the way it blends with the bohemian present. The two combine to make a...
Take Your Christmas Holiday Celebration to a New Level
Created in 1982, Christmas at Old Fort Concho covers the 40 acres/24 buildings of one of the best-preserved frontier forts west of the Mississippi....
Hell on Wheels
A century and a half ago the Iron Horse galloped across the prairie and plains of Nebraska then over and around the mountains and across the...