by Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 28, 2021 | Features & Gunfights
Adventures await along the West’s byways and highways to history. As the first rays of the morning sun greet us just over the horizon as we head west on a two-lane blacktop, the anticipation of the day’s adventures and roads ahead fill our minds with curiosity,...
by Michael Engelhard | Oct 28, 2021 | Features & Gunfights
The odds are good that a visitor to Nome, Alaska—landed as a cruise ship passenger or spectator of the Iditarod race finish—will pause before an antique roulette wheel enshrined at the Carrie M. McClain Memorial Museum. A label below the hairline-cracked, painted disc...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Oct 28, 2021 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
Jerry Enzler’s new biography of Jim Bridger, and new histories of Lewis and Clark, the grand masters of Western art, war on the central plains and Max McCoy’s latest Western. In my earliest days of reading American history, biography was a staple of my education. A...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Oct 28, 2021 | Departments, Renegade Roads
A trip tracking the Texas author across the Lone Star State is sure to create memorable stories. The frontier town of Mobeetie was taking on some of the appearances of civilization, although not all the realities of it.” That’s the first description of a Texas town in...
by Jerry Enzler | Oct 28, 2021 | Features & Gunfights
Jim Bridger, once a teenaged mountain man, became the most dependable and renowned trailblazer of the vast lands of the American West. For more than a century, some historians have marked a distinct period of exploration dating from the expedition of Lewis and Clark...