What did cowboys read for pleasure? Chris Robinson London, Kentucky Cowboys were likely to pack a dime novel featuring J…
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What are “long-tailed heroes”? In the book Roughing It, Mark Twain refers to gunfighters as “long-tailed heroes.” What does that mean?
In the book Roughing It, Mark Twain refers to gunfighters as “long-tailed heroes.” What does that mean? Paul Gortarez Ph…
Roughing It In Mark Twain’s book Roughing It he refers to the gunfighters as long-tailed heroes. What does that mean?
The other day a friend asked, “In Mark Twain’s book Roughing It he refers to the gunfighters as long-tailed heroes. What…
Twain Redux Review of Robert Coover's Huck Out West.
Robert Coover tackles the impossible in Huck Out West (W.W. Norton, $26.95), a sequel to Mark Twain’s The Adventures of …
Top 10 Museums of The West 2017 The best museums of the Western United States celebrate the past, engage the present and inspire the future.
Museums across the West are embracing an ever-widening range of stories to interpret—from the geology and paleontology o…
Mark Twain’s Vittles and Viands Meals by stage, restaurant and campfire.
Once Missouri-born Samuel Clemens headed west in July 1861, he began his lifelong career of penning frontier life accoun…
Big Wheel on the River The man who taught Mark Twain how to pilot a steamboat built a northwestern empire.
Born June 6, 1822, in Springboro, Ohio, John C. Ainsworth was orphaned at 11, quit school at 13 and worked in his uncle’…