Wyoming's Best: Candy Moulton I first met Candy Moulton in person at the Tucson Festival of Books in March 2014. As senior editor at True...
True Westerner of the Year: Candy Moulton
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Candy Moulton
Boring History? Not the Way We Tell It
Western Writers of America pack in to save the day. "At the bottom.” Your heart is going to hit the bottom of your stomach in a second when I tell...
Traditions of the West
Discover the best of our collective Western culture in the exhibits of the top museums of 2019.
Following the Bent Brothers
So much of the Western story begins in St. Louis, and the tale of William and Charles Bent is no exception. From a family of eleven children, the...
Hell on Wheels
A century and a half ago the Iron Horse galloped across the prairie and plains of Nebraska then over and around the mountains and across the...
Gateways to the Old West
Get your mule, load the wagon and let’s take a look at the best museums of the West. St. Louis, known as the Gateway to the West, takes our top...
Trailing the Wild Bunch
Two of the best-known bank and train robbers of the 19th century spent time in jail and prison—for horse theft—and not a day behind bars for...
Reveille on the Overland Trail
Ohio State Senator William O. Collins, a proponent of war-funding after the attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861, took a stronger stand for the Union...
Lords of the West
Birthed in Canada, the Hudson’s Bay Company was founded on May 2, 1670, when King Charles granted a charter to his cousin, Prince Rupert,...
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...
Canyons, Chasms and Cataracts
Not long after his graduation from West Point, Lt. George M. Wheeler became an assistant survey engineer in the San Francisco area. Promoted to...
Texas Captains of Cotton and Cattle
Alabama-born Levi Jordan left the border country between Louisiana and Arkansas in 1848 and resettled near the San Bernard River in Texas. He...