Back Trail to the Reel West
My wife Dana and I rode into the heart of the Alabama Hills, a place I had been to thousands of times in my 50-plus years, even though I’d never set foot here before. Situated west of Lone Pine, California, in the beautiful but stark Owens Valley, the Alabama Hills...
Cow Camp Style
It took a decade to find the property that Mike and Amy Bennett envisioned: a classic little log building not unlike the trailside museum at the confluence of the Madison and Gibbon Rivers in Yellowstone National Park, with a little stream out back, a meadow and lots...
Ups & Downs of Ranching Dream
Who hasn’t fantasized about riding off into the sunset on your own horse through beautiful Western terrain that is all yours for as far as the eye can see? Yet running a ranch is a 24/7 existence with a lot of hard work and sacrifice. For those I’ve met who have made...
Journey Through Spanish Missions Country
Tourists—tons of them—walk inside these walls with a quiet reverence. It’s not because the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) remind them of nuns at their Catholic high schools, ready to slap their knuckles with rulers if they get out of line. It’s because this...
True West March/April 2025
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