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One Continental Union

One Continental Union

by | May 1, 2004 | Features & Gunfights

It’s Monday, May 10, 1869, 2:40 p.m., Eastern time. For the first time, the entire nation is riveted to one event. “We have got done praying, the spike is about to be presented,” W.N. Shilling taps out in Morse code. Tens of thousands of people across the nation stand...
Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel

Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel

by | Apr 1, 2004 | Art, Guns and Culture

Buffalo Bill Cody founded the Irma Hotel in 1902, calling it “just the sweetest hotel that ever was.” Located in Cody, Wyoming, the town that the legendary showman helped establish in 1895, the Irma was named for his youngest daughter. Wanna-be performers often tried...
The Coming of the Sacred Dog

The Coming of the Sacred Dog

by | Apr 1, 2004 | Features & Gunfights

“The God of the Christians is dead. He was made of rotten wood.” These words, allegedly uttered in his native language by Tewa holy man Popé, marked the beginning of the Indian renaissance in North America. For some time, Popé had been telling his fellow Pueblos...
Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel

Trading Post Profiles

by | Apr 1, 2004 | Art, Guns and Culture

Buffalo Bill Cody founded the Irma Hotel in 1902, calling it “just the sweetest hotel that ever was.” Located in Cody, Wyoming, the town that the legendary showman helped establish in 1895, the Irma was named for his youngest daughter. Wanna-be performers often tried...
A River Runs Through History

A River Runs Through History

by | Jan 1, 2004 | Travel & Preservation

What was Juan de Oñate thinking when he named the Rio Grande in 1598? Great River? Criminy, at some places it’s not even a mediocre ditch. Explorers from Álvar Núñez Cabesa de Vaca (1535-1536) and Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1540) to Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike...