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Bookin’ It

Bookin’ It

by | Mar 1, 2008 | Travel & Preservation

Granville Stuart was a lot of things—merchant, miner, rancher, diplomat, vigilante—and an avid reader. His Montana cabin was filled with books covering just about any topic you can think of, and he would travel far and wide to get them, as shown in his journal excerpt...
Walk the Read

Walk the Read

by | Mar 1, 2008 | Travel & Preservation

Do you know the history behind…the pedometer craze sweeping across the nation? Look to the Old Order Amish, who naturally log more than the recommended 10,000 steps a day a pedometer helps walkers measure. These folks pretty much live like many did on the...
There Will Be Oscars

There Will Be Oscars

by | Feb 4, 2008 | Western Movies

The single element that both connected and distinguished David Milch’s HBO series Deadwood from the Westerns that preceded it was that the corrupt entrepreneurs, cast as classic villains, were placed at center stage in the saga. Back when every Western had a...
Clean Shots

Clean Shots

by | Feb 1, 2008 | Art, Guns and Culture

The most successful gunfighters in the Old West were firm believers in maintaining their firearms. As the story goes, handsome, homicidal John Wesley Hardin took a break from his notorious rampages and was cleaning his six-gun in his hotel room one day when a bullet...
Not Just a Sea Plague

Not Just a Sea Plague

by | Feb 1, 2008 | Inside History

“Before the railroad, in the days of stage-coaching, the Western traveler subsisted principally on fried bacon and canned tomatoes,” wrote Lt. John Bigelow, Jr. in his book, On the Bloody Trail of Geronimo. “To my mind, this diet is not inferior,...