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Passin’ Through Louis L’Amour Land

Passin’ Through Louis L’Amour Land

by | Jul 1, 2006 | Travel & Preservation

He sat motionless, starin’ ahead, aware of everythin’ around him. In this country, patience meant survival. Too often, the first to move became the first to die. Crossin’ U.S. 550 can be a bitch. Seein’ a quick openin’, he gunned across the intersection and found his...
Oklahoma’s 101 Ranch

Oklahoma’s 101 Ranch

by | Jul 1, 2006 | Features & Gunfights

                  In 1879, Col. George Washington Miller with son, Joe, then age 11, rode across the Cherokee Outlet, looking for rangeland where they could run cattle. Miller, originally from Kentucky, had already...
Dude! Where’s My Ranch?

Dude! Where’s My Ranch?

by | Jul 1, 2006 | True Westerners

Teddy Roosevelt knew what he was talking about. To appreciate properly his fine, manly qualities, the wild rough-rider of the plains should be seen in his own home. There he passes his days, there he does his life-work, there, when he meets death, he faces it as he...
From Homesteaders to Wolfers

From Homesteaders to Wolfers

by | Jul 1, 2006 | True Westerners

For 50 years, almost nobody remembered Evelyn Cameron or what she’d done in the territorial days of early Montana. Her name wasn’t in history books or halls of fame, and her contribution to Western history was stashed, literally, in the basement of a friend....
Sports in the Wild West

Sports in the Wild West

by | Jun 2, 2006 | Features & Gunfights

If you mention the word “sports” in the same breath with the “Old West,” most people will give you a blank stare. Yet sports were as much a part of frontier life as the cowboy riding a fence line—even more so, since sports were there long before there was a fence line...