Julia Parker discovered her talent and passion for weaving from an unexpected source. When Julia Parker was first approached to demonstrate native...
One Basket at a Time
Julia Parker discovered her talent and passion for weaving from an unexpected source. When Julia Parker was first approached to demonstrate native...
Waddie Mitchell
What people don’t understand about cowboy poetry is that it’s not just about cowboying, cows, horses and living on the range, but it is anything in...
Waddie Mitchell
What people don’t understand about cowboy poetry is that it’s not just about cowboying, cows, horses and living on the range, but it is anything in...
Joe McNeill
I first became interested in the history of Western film after moving to Sedona, Arizona, in 2001. My interest in Westerns jump-started when I could...
Jim Hatzell
The Artist Ride is going stronger than ever after 26 years. It is held once a year at the Shearer Ranch, 20 miles north of Wall, South Dakota. About...
The Invisible Indian Tribe
Few people have ever heard of the Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribe that is scattered around Las Cruces, New Mexico. In fact, the tribe isn’t even a...
William C. Porter
My favorite book is Michener's Centennial. I like an author who can draw you into history through family lines stretching over decades or, better,...
Depression-Era Treasure
In Phoenix, which means rebirth, the realization that history could be found deep beneath the Arizona dirt came when what is now America’s fifth...
Chris Enss
Tiger Woods and Buffalo Bill Cody are men who thought monogamy was a type of wood. They were legendary talents with flaws who were eager to...
Digging Up San Jacinto
All that’s left now is an old cistern sitting in a pasture where cows graze-a tree growing out of it, standing as the only sentinel to this place...
Jeff Hildebrandt
The essence of a great Western, to me, is John Wayne. I think his characters and the stories told, for the most part, convey the myth of the...