Growing up in Omaha, Ron Hansen found the Old West present in Nebraska’s cornfields, wilderness and railroad tracks full of empty boxcars. Following...
What History Has Taught Me: Ron Hansen, Author
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What History Has Taught Me
Born in Oakland, California, John McEuen is a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, which is currently on a 50th anniversary tour. McEuen’s...
What History Has Taught Me
Award-winning author Craig Johnson, who lives in Ucross, Wyoming, with his wife, Judy, spoke with True West at this year’s Western Writers of...
What History Has Taught Me
The father of six kids, Don Collier is well known as a Westerns actor. He broke into the genre in 1948, graduating from an extra in Massacre River...
Tom Van Dyke
History has taught me it’s never too late to ride a fresh horse. Henry Ford started the Ford Motor Company when he was 40 years old. I fell in love...
Hometown Visionaries
The “Wizard of Oz” taught that you don’t have to go far from home to find your dream. Donna and John Sickles know what that means, and Saint Jo,...
Remembering D.L. Birchfield
The world of Western literature lost a treasured voice in the early morning hours of September 7, when D.L. Birchfield, Choctaw satirist and...
Larry Winget
Most people think you can happy your way to success or think your way to success or that having a positive attitude is all that it takes to be...
Singing for His Supper
Cy Scarborough’s heart never was in the “Natural State,” even though he was born and raised in Arkansas 85 years ago. “As a kid, I dreamed of going...
John Fusco
I loved working with the “Young Guns,” but it was the Old Guns, like Jack Palance, James Coburn and Brian Keith, who made it a true Western...
Supersized in San Antonio
Texans don’t call San Antonio’s Witte Museum the “people’s museum” to be folksy. Unlike many museums that come into being with a nice endowment from...
Sandra Day O’Connor
Growing up on a ranch taught me to be responsible for doing everything as well as I could. My favorite line from my dad, Harry A. Day, is: “Just do...