Dr. L.V. Baker, a fourth-generation native and owner of Safari B Ranch, believes Elk City to be as unique as the residents of his exotic ranch. Elk...
Elk City, Oklahoma
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True Western Towns
Fort Davis, Texas
“Most people still don’t believe that there are mountains in Texas,” says Larry Francell, the just-retired director at the Museum of the Big Bend in...
Buffalo, Wyoming
Buffalo, Wyoming-population 4,480-is the kind of town that rallies around its community members, even when memories are all they have left of the...
Buffalo, Wyoming
Buffalo, Wyoming-population 4,480-is the kind of town that rallies around its community members, even when memories are all they have left of the...
Bandera, Texas
When you ask Genie Strickland, a fifth-generation Banderan, how a town of 957 people can produce so much Western heritage entertainment, she breaks...
Reno, Nevada
When Mella Rothwell Harmon wrote her thesis for the University of Nevada in Reno in 1998, she tackled Reno’s divorce trade at dude ranches during...
Fort Pierre, South Dakota
Bone-chilling cold held Fort Pierre, South Dakota, in its icy grip the evening of January 27, 2010, as six men met in the city’s cozy Log Cabin...
The Dalles, Oregon
Susan Buce jokingly dubs herself the “History Queen,” yet her breadth of knowledge of the Columbia Gorge region is indeed impressive. The...
Cherokee Nation’s Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Last March 6, a direct descendant of Sequoyah, the mayor of Tahlequah and the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation were among those who came...
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Living in a bucolic setting along Mitchell Creek, with lots of horses and wild turkeys, Greg and Marilee Rippy are in their mid-50s quite...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2010
Given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts. We hope this award will not only encourage federal, state and...
Bisbee, Arizona
In the historic district of Old Bisbee, S. Grant Sergot is handmaking a fur felt hat inside the Victorian-style Optimo Hatworks. Located at 47 Main...