by Stuart Rosebrook | Mar 31, 2018 | Features & Gunfights
The long American road trip across the West evokes emotions of freedom and adventure and mental images of windswept plains, awe-inspiring mountain ranges and endless, impenetrable deserts. The vast Western lands awaken our basic instincts of thrill-seeking and...
by Michael Blake | Mar 17, 2017 | Features & Gunfights
He was known as a man of action, speaking softly but carrying a big stick. He led a group of volunteers called the Rough Riders to victory and fame up Cuba’s San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. As President, he preserved over 230 million acres of land for the...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Feb 14, 2012 | Art, Guns and Culture
From the Bucket of Blood Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada, to the Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas, Texas, to stages at festivals like the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium in Ruidoso, New Mexico, Western troubadours, Bluegrass pickers, Honky-Tonk singers and...
by Various Authors | Feb 21, 2025 | Travel & Preservation, True Western Towns
DISCOVERING AMERICA’S HISTORIC FRONTIER TOWNS From Arizona’s sunbaked deserts to Wyoming’s untamed wilderness, America’s historic frontier towns capture the enduring spirit of the Wild West. These storied destinations take travelers on a journey through time, offering...
by Candy Moulton | Feb 21, 2025 | Renegade Roads
Calamity Jane, Wild Bill and George Custer roamed the Black Hills On July 2, 1874, George Armstrong Custer led a surveying expedition of around 1,000 men, 110 wagons and hundreds of head of mules, horses and cattle from Fort Abraham Lincoln into the Black Hills of...