Dude! Where’s My Ranch?
Teddy Roosevelt knew what he was talking about. To appreciate properly his fine, manly qualities, the wild rough-rider of the plains should be seen in his own home. There he passes his days, there he does his life-work, there, when he meets death, he faces it as he...
The Racial Frontier
Men of African descent were in the West since the time of Spanish exploration in the 16th century. Estevanico, a Black slave from Morocco, was among the explorers who landed near Florida’s Tampa Bay in 1528. A series of disasters followed, and the members made their...
A Trail of Two Cities
I’m sneaking across the Missouri River, as it may be safer traveling incognito. It seems I ticked off a resident or two the last time I mentioned Council Bluffs, Iowa, in this ol’ rag. I don’t recollect the exact words used, but “seamy underbelly” comes to mind....
Trailing Wilson Price Hunt’s Astorians West
Soon after forming the Pacific Fur Company, New Yorker Wilson Price Hunt developed a plan to begin fur trade exploitation in the Pacific Northwest. He organized two ventures: one involved an ocean expedition of the Tonquin, which would sail around the tip of South...
True West May/June 2024
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