Tombstone’s Night Life
The most imposing and best known in theater in Tombstone was Schieffelin Hall, inspired by the town founder. For two decades it was the largest theater between El Paso and San Francisco. Construction on the tallest adobe building in the United States began in early...
Top 10 Museums of The West 2017
Museums across the West are embracing an ever-widening range of stories to interpret—from the geology and paleontology of the landscape to the cultural materials of Western film and Western art. Big new installations were made and significant milestones were reached...
The Escalante
There’s nothing left to show for it today, but one time the Escalante in Ash Fork, Arizona was billed as the best Harvey House west of Chicago. The name was in keeping with the Harvey tradition of naming their establishments after Spanish explorers. Silvestre...
The Deadly Dade Massacre
Bob Sharp, who managed the 257,000-acre Baca Float from 1937 to 1952 wrote in his Big Outfit: Ranching on the Baca Float, “The Baca Float was one of the last big outfits to run under the code of the old time ranchers, a code which respected the knowledge of the men on...
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