by Bill Markley | Apr 24, 2010 | Travel & Preservation
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...
by Henry Cabot Beck | Apr 24, 2010 | Western Movies
Just how or why John Wayne first came upon the idea of making a movie about the Alamo is possibly the only mystery remaining in a movie that has been examined and covered from every imaginable angle during the past 50 years since its premiere. Long before a single...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Apr 24, 2010 | Travel & Preservation
I hadn’t seen lines like this since I tried to get into a bookstore in Dallas, Texas, where actor Jimmy Stewart was autographing copies of his book of poetry. That was like trying to get into a Dallas Cowboys home playoff game. On May 24-25, 2009, when the New Mexico...
by Henry Cabot Beck | Mar 20, 2010 | Western Movies
On a dark and stormy night, sheets of rain pounded the window of Paladin’s suite in San Francisco’s swank Hotel Carlton. Inside, the soldier-of-fortune Paladin (Richard Boone) entertained a beautiful and mysterious blonde, who was stretched out on his Victorian...
by TW Editors | Mar 13, 2010 | Travel & Preservation
If you love history and the open road, we have combined the two just for you, complete with comprehensive listings and inside information to give you a leg up on any foreigners (people who live east of the Mississippi). Here is your own personal cheat sheet on 83...