by Darley Newman | Mar 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Sam Baldwin, who roamed this island of Hawaii in the early 20th century, wrote of a day-long ride to capture cattle that took him across 25 miles of more than 20,000 vertical feet. Riding from the slopes of the Haleakala Crater and up and over down the Sliding Sands...
by G. Daniel DeWeese | Mar 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Y’know, my python boot is too tight, I couldn’t get it off last night. A week went by, and now it’s July. I finally got it off, and my girlfriend cried, “You got Stink-Foot! Stink-Foot, darlin’! Your Stink-foot puts a hurt on my...
by TW Editors | Mar 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Our collective American snapshot history began when George Eastman introduced the Kodak camera and roll film in 1888. As the years went on, more and more folks were able to record their favorite memories of their travels. Nowadays pretty much everyone owns a digital...
by Martha Deeringer | Mar 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
By 1880, the great herds of buffalo—estimated at 60 million in America—were all but gone, leaving behind them a dismal story of human greed and shortsightedness. William T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Society traveled throughout the West in 1889 to conduct a...
by Johnny D. Boggs | Feb 13, 2011 | Travel & Preservation
There’s no place like Kansas. We’re talking about the Central/ Sunflower/Wheat/Jayhawk State. This state has more nicknames than Bob Boze Bell (but you can’t print what folks call BBB). After a fight over free- or slave-state status (thus another moniker, “Bleeding...