Travel Features
Gunfighter Graves
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by Bob Stinson
“Doc Holliday...He Died in Bed.”
Wow, who knew this deathbed twist would jolt True West’s Facebook fans to generate the first major top-rated feed in the magazine’s social media history? It is shocking that tuberculosis turned out to be the loaded gun that claimed the life of one of the Old West’s most iconic gunfighters.
Grand Hotels of the West
- Published April 16, 2013
- Written by John Stanley
You might think an institution as posh and highfalutin as a grand hotel surely had its origins in Europe, serving the gentlefolk on their travels.
You might think so, but you’d be wrong.
Hotel Colorado
- Published April 15, 2013
- Written by John Stanley
The Utes were almost certainly the first to enjoy the hot mineral baths at what is now Glenwood Springs, but they would not be the last.
Railroad tycoon and silver magnate Walter Devereux purchased 10 acres around the springs in 1887 for $125,000, then sunk an additional $850,000 into the construction of his hotel, patterned after a 16th-century Italian villa.
Crockett Hotel
- Published April 15, 2013
- Written by John Stanley
Talk about historic.
This venerable hotel stands just behind the Alamo, where, in 1836, Col. William B. Travis, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett and a ragtag band of settlers, Texians and Tejanos fought valiantly for 13 days before being slaughtered by the vastly superior forces of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
You can practically smell blackpowder and hear the roar of cannons from the aptly named Crockett Hotel in downtown San Antonio.
Ambassador Hotel
- Published April 15, 2013
- Written by John Stanley
Oklahoma’s first apartment-hotel was built by Patrick J. Hurley, who went onto became secretary of war under President Herbert Hoover and, later, an emissary to Russia and ambassador to China.
The Ambassador Hotel, which opened its doors in 1929, was built mostly to serve as temporary quarters for some of the state’s newly wealthy oil barons while their mansions in the nearby Maple Ridge neighborhood (now a historic district) were under construction. Today, the hotel offers 55 rooms, eight of which are suites.
