High Country Adventure

High Country Adventure

Long before air conditioning, automobiles, interstates and high-speed air travel, American transcontinental railroad companies of the 19th century realized that Western tourism would become an important source of passenger service income. The Santa Fe Railway’s...
Queen of the Wild Bunch

Queen of the Wild Bunch

According to one of the many legends of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Etta Place in South America, two men and one woman at the table pulled their chairs into the limited shade offered by the thin limbs of casadensis trees. The isolated mountain village of San...
A Legend is Born

A Legend is Born

The Sundance Kid, whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, is inextricably linked to the better-known Butch Cassidy, most likely as a result of the 1969 Western movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as well as subsequent print and film treatments. The two...
Get Western!

Get Western!

I remember seeing my Wyoming-raised father quietly touching his hand to the brim of his cowboy hat, or tipping it in a polite gesture when meeting a man or woman in our travels. I always thought this was such a gentlemanly way of saying hello, and I enjoyed seeing...