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On Location!

On Location!

by | Apr 1, 2007 | Western Movies

Harry Goulding sure didn’t come across as a Hollywood Western hero. But he was. Harry got there by a meandering route, though. In the 1920s, he and his wife set up a trading post in southern Utah, just north of the Arizona border. There were no paved roads through the...
A Man That Won’t Bend

A Man That Won’t Bend

by | Mar 1, 2007 | Art, Guns and Culture

Being an outlaw is no way to win a popularity contest. Royal Wade Kimes was with buddy Garth Brooks and his dad. Ray Brooks pointed toward Kimes: “You know who that is?” “Well, sure, Dad,” replied Garth. “That’s Wade.” “No, that’s a Kimes,” said the elder Brooks. “And...
A Man That Won’t Bend

A Man That Won’t Bend

by | Mar 1, 2007 | Art, Guns and Culture

Being an outlaw is no way to win a popularity contest. Royal Wade Kimes was with buddy Garth Brooks and his dad. Ray Brooks pointed toward Kimes: “You know who that is?” “Well, sure, Dad,” replied Garth. “That’s Wade.” “No, that’s a Kimes,” said the elder Brooks. “And...
A Half-Breed Son-of-a-Basque

A Half-Breed Son-of-a-Basque

by | Feb 1, 2007 | Western Books

Like two horses harnessed together, the West of change and the West of complexity alternatively gallop and prance, slip and stumble,” writes Richard Etulain in Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West. Professor emeritus of history at the University of New...
Ten Events that Shaped the West

Ten Events that Shaped the West

by | Feb 1, 2007 | Features & Gunfights

The men and women of the Old West are among the most cherished figures in Americana—the symbols of the making of a country and of hard work, honest determination, elemental existence, rugged independence and self-reliance. The frontier provided a place where a man or...