by TW Editors | Apr 1, 2007 | Western Movies
Harry Goulding sure didn’t come across as a Hollywood Western hero. But he was. Harry got there by a meandering route, though. In the 1920s, he and his wife set up a trading post in southern Utah, just north of the Arizona border. There were no paved roads through the...
by Jana Bommersbach | Feb 1, 2007 | Travel & Preservation
We know the train was a major player in the settling of the Old West. We know it’s a romantic and wonderful way to travel—just ask anyone why they like to take the train, and you’ll predictably get a rhapsodic answer about the beauty of the scenery, the friendliness...
by Jana Bommersbach | Feb 1, 2007 | Travel & Preservation
We know the train was a major player in the settling of the Old West. We know it’s a romantic and wonderful way to travel—just ask anyone why they like to take the train, and you’ll predictably get a rhapsodic answer about the beauty of the scenery, the friendliness...
by Mark Boardman | Jul 1, 2006 | True Westerners
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...
by Steve Turner | May 2, 2006 | Features & Gunfights
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...