On the Trail of Charlie Russell
Travel across Montana and discover the state through the life and art of the cowboy artist. Charles M. Russell was 16 when he first arrived in the Judith Basin of Montana in 1880 and found work on a sheep ranch. He visited family in Missouri and Illinois in the winter...
What History Has Taught Me with Bradley G. Courtney
Historian and Educator Bradley G. Courtney, Prescott, Arizona’s “Whiskey Row Historian,” has written books and articles, and has lectured extensively on the history of that town’s famously infamous stretch of saloons that started forming in 1864. He learned in 2011...
Climax Jim
Climax Jim was the darling of the Arizona press during the late 1890s. Thanks to the fertile imaginations of the old timers who knew him and the newspaper reporters who embellished and enlivened the activities of this likable street-wise kid from the east coast who...
At the End of the Long Drive
When a cowboy got to a cattle town after a long drive, making his dollar a day, what would have been his thoughts on spending a part of that money on a shave, bath, new clothes, etc, and what would those things have cost him, not to mention a few drinks. What would...
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