Thanks to the pull of love, one of today’s most acclaimed hoop dancing families in the nation helped to revive the native dance that had all but...
Hoop Dance Dynasty
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True Westerners
Keeping New Mexico’s Pueblo Culture Alive
The Phillips family always loved their annual summer trip to Santa Fe from their California home in the 1950s and ’60s. In the Hopi land of northern...
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert, the latest honky-tonk angel to rock the white man’s Blues, has eyes that haunt you with a stare too old for her age (she’s 28). Her...
Jody Dahl
Rancho-nomics means if you’re going to make it in the ranching and dude ranching industry, get a leather punch and just keep punching holes in it....
Lynn Anderson
In 1966, I ran for Miss Rodeo California in Salinas. I didn’t win the contest. Won the “Horsemanship.” Won the “Written Test.” Placed Fourth . . ....
Cuchillo Crusader
A family of wild turkeys is to thank for Josh Bond and his heroic efforts to save an abandoned town almost everyone has overlooked. It was 14 years...
David Zucker
I’m not really obsessed with the Alamo. I just love the souvenir shop. In all of my movies you will see a reference to Davy Crockett. His picture...
Rock ‘n’ Roll Pony Express?
You wouldn’t think that movie director Peter Bogdanovich and rock star Tom Petty would inspire a documentary film on the Pony Express of the 1860s,...
Bob Stinson
History has taught me that money and big-time family connections are still the only way to make it to the top. Not that you can’t get there,...
The Seeds of Navajo Soul
“Tears” from the album Spirit of a Woman by Radmilla Cody / Courtesy Canyon Records License #2010-067. All rights reserved. Visit Canyon Records to...
A Crotchety Cowboy Mentor
Some 30,000 pictures ago, Gil Gustavsen and Cheryl Stapleton thought they were going in a totally different direction. Both transplants to Arizona,...
Mike Scovel
I fell in love with the West when I first heard Gabby Hayes sing “Snag-Tooth Sal.” When it comes to Western Art, I am inspired by small historic...