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Reading the September 2000 True West article by Glenn Shirley, titled, “A Tireless Energy & Nerves of Steel,” I was fascinated by Caroline Bonneville. Are there books about other independent women of the early West?

Reading the September 2000 True West article by Glenn Shirley, titled, “A Tireless Energy & Nerves of Steel,” I was fascinated by Caroline Bonneville. Are there books about other independent women of the early West?

by | Apr 1, 2003 | Inside History

Stace Webb Via the Internet Agnes Morley Cleveland wrote No Life for a Lady, which is about her experiences on a ranch in New Mexico. Mary Kidder Rak wrote A Cowman’s Wife, which is about 1920s ranching in Cochise County, Arizona. She was a Stanford graduate who...
Where’s the Beef?

Where’s the Beef?

by | Apr 1, 2003 | Travel & Preservation

The cowboys, longhorns and chuck wagon on the bluff two miles south of Caldwell, Kansas, aren’t making any progress. Since 1995, this trail herd has been pointed north at the same spot just east of the railroad tracks. The marker commemorating the life-size silhouette...
Cottonwood Canyon Ranch

Cottonwood Canyon Ranch

by | Apr 1, 2003 | Art, Guns and Culture

The original pioneers came to the land as explorers, as dreamers—claiming a hunk of dirt to make a life. They came, as historians remind us, “not to paradise where ease awaited them, but to the most demanding of areas.” They dug for water and built corrals; they...
James Drury, Alias The Virginian

James Drury, Alias The Virginian

by | Feb 1, 2003 | Western Movies

When Owen Wister published The Virginian in 1902, he created the  quintessential fictional Western hero (more than 60 years before Clint Eastwood made The Man With No Name popular) and gave birth to an American literary genre. Gary Cooper once played Wister’s hero on...