by Johnny D. Boggs | Jul 15, 2021 | Departments, Renegade Roads
Hit the road across Oklahoma and Texas to discover the history behind the Warren Wagon Train Raid and the Kiowa Indian Trial of 1871. It started out as a run-of-the-mill job. Capt. Henry Warren had a contract to deliver supplies to the forts on the Texas...
by Jana Bommersbach | Jul 14, 2021 | Departments, Old West Saviors
Tim Peterson’s breathtaking collection is coming to Scottsdale. Tim Peterson was just entering his teens in the 1970s when he and his father visited a gallery, and his life took a new direction. By then, he’d already started collecting—baseball cards,...
by Melody Groves | Jun 11, 2021 | Features & Gunfights
Towering pines whirl past an open window ushering in pine-scented breezes. The click-clack of train wheels underneath relaxes riders. Puffs of locomotive smoke sail beside the car. In the distance, a wide blue ribbon meanders through hills forested with shrubs and...
by Peter Corbett | Jun 11, 2021 | Departments, True Western Towns
Theodore Roosevelt’s Western home is where legends were made—and still celebrated. It’s hard to imagine a Western town with a more unusual backstory than Medora in the Badlands of North Dakota. The town was founded in 1883 by French nobleman Antoine Amedee Marie...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Jun 11, 2021 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
The well-known story of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Irish and Chinese men who built it has been recounted many times, but the role of women in the development of America’s railroads has been mostly overlooked, despite the development of...