by Ron Soodalter | Jul 17, 2010 | Features & Gunfights
Many classic Westerns feature the timeworn device of the last-minute cavalry rescue. The baddies are Indians, besieging a wagon train or surrounding a mixed group of stranded stagecoach passengers. Just when things appear bleakest, in ride the boys in blue, guidons...
by TW Editors | Jul 4, 2010 | Travel & Preservation
For your reading pleasure: 137 performances you can sink your teeth into, plus chow to fill your tummy, bookstores to get lost in and rivers to float on while you’re in town. You can’t beat that with a stick. Baxter Black Baxter Black famously, and poetically, said:...
by TW Editors | Jul 4, 2010 | Travel & Preservation
For your reading pleasure: 137 performances you can sink your teeth into, plus chow to fill your tummy, bookstores to get lost in and rivers to float on while you’re in town. You can’t beat that with a stick. Baxter Black Baxter Black famously, and poetically, said:...
by Candy Moulton | Jun 26, 2010 | Travel & Preservation
Gold seekers intent on finding the quickest ways to the Colorado gold fields forged the Smoky Hill Trail, but many of them paid a terrible price in their quest as tthey failed to recognize the dangers in crossing the Kansas and Colorado Plains. Named for the Smoky...
by Joe McNeill | Jun 1, 2010 | Western Movies
For those of you who may have wondered what book laid on the reading table next to Adolph Hitler’s bed, you might be surprised to learn it was likely a Western. In his 1976 prison memoir Spandau: The Secret Diaries, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the...