Cowboy Up! Across the Americas, from the fields to parades, Western wear is the uniform of working men and women. In 2024, cowboy hats and boots are...
Best of the West: Western Wear
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Life in the West
Best of the West: Western Fare
Come and Get It! Historic Western-style restaurants, saloons and dinner shows keep the Old West alive. Across the West, from small towns to big...
Best of the West 2024
Celebrating the West True West enters its eighth decade with hope and promise. When Joe Small launched True West from his office in...
The Cowboy
America’s icon still rides tall in the saddle. They call him cowboy, vaquero, buckaroo, waddy, paniolo, saddletramp, wrangler and drover. He...
Pioneer Pets
Dogs and cats are as Western as six-guns and Stetsons—and a lot more lovable. In the Old West, dogs were common—and necessary. Cats, not at first,...
The Jackass Mail
In 1849 it took 166 days to travel coast to coast. By the 1860’s you could do it in 60 days. A decade later a train could make the trip in 11 days....
The West
Never in the history of the world has there been a place like the American West. The pristine uncharted land, its natural beauty, blessed with...
In Pursuit of Honor
In 1995 the movie, In Pursuit of Honor was about an incident in the 1930’s when the Army set about to slaughter some 500 cavalry horses. Three...
Bar None
The long-gone bars, honky-tonks and saloons I grew up in are more than memories. When I was on the women’s panel at the Tucson Festival of Books...
Denziens of the Wild
In the past, most western movies romanticize sleeping under the stars and the wide, open spaces. How much trouble did they have with all of the...