Dreams of Gold on the Starvation Trail
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...
Heil Hitler Away! (English Version)
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...
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 150 authentic Old West models provide scrap for the artists. The ride is so popular that we now have to set limits on...
Fort Pierre, South Dakota
Bone-chilling cold held Fort Pierre, South Dakota, in its icy grip the evening of January 27, 2010, as six men met in the city’s cozy Log Cabin Information Center. I don’t live in Fort Pierre, but in Pierre, its neighbor across the Missouri River, so I invited experts...
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