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Back Trail to the Reel West
Situated west of Lone Pine, California, in the beautiful but stark Owens Valley, the Alabama Hills have been the setting for more than 350 movies, TV shows and commercials—many, many of them Westerns.
The Road To Mangas
The dirt road to Mangas almost loses itself amid low hills as it winds through the windswept plains of New Mexico's high desert.
Remembering Mountain Meadows
In 1872, the massacre was only 15 years old. Imagine how almost forgotten Mountain Meadows is today.
The Beecher's Island Boys
This is the kind of fog you expect to find on the coast, in London, in a horror movie or Casablanca, not traveling along U.S. Highway 385 in eastern Colorado...
Mining Vs. Ranching
I'm on that scenic and historic stretch of Interstate 90 in Montana's "Gold West" country, showing my bias against "mining" and for "ranching."
Rendezvous Deja Vu
Most Mountain Men re-enactors don't dare miss the Green River Rendezvous held in Pinedale, Wyoming, every July.
Sacking Lawrence
The clerk at the bookstore recommends that I grab supper and a beer at the Free State Brewing Company.
Trailing the First Indian Person
"Yes, we have Standing Bear, too" Betty Davis tells me when I spy the photograph of the legendary Ponca chief at the Douglas County Historical Society in Omaha, Nebraska.
Party Like a Cowboy
It takes a well-traveled enthusiastic person whose love of the American West drives him (literally) to seek out the best spots to cultivate his obsession.