Candy Moulton

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A Historian’s Dream House

The defining features in the home of historians Robert Utley and Melody Webb are the bookshelves.

Category Photo Gallery, Westward Home Author Candy Moulton Date 11/03/2009
River Rock Oasis

Fifteen years ago Tom and Linda Whitaker organized the Heber City Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Buckaroo Fair.

Category Photo Gallery, Westward Home Author Candy Moulton Date 09/25/2009
Mapping the Black Hills: Valentine T. McGillycuddy

Valentine T. MGillycuddy, weak and on the verge of becoming an alcoholic...

Category Renegade Roads Author Candy Moulton Date 08/25/2009
Spirit West River Lodge
When Lynn and R.G. Finney’s sons were small, the family lived in a Victorian-sized house that had belonged to her grandmother.
Category Photo Gallery, Westward Home Author Candy Moulton Date 08/25/2009
Pueblo Revival Living

People build homes in the West for many reasons. 

Category Photo Gallery, Westward Home Author Candy Moulton Date 08/01/2009
Filming the Oregon Trail

During the 19th century around 400,000 people traveled the Oregon and California Trails.

Category Renegade Roads Author Candy Moulton Date 06/01/2009
Living in a 100-Year-Old Mercantile

While Lori had grown up in the Ten Sleep area, husband Marcus, a former True West editor, had never experienced life in such a small town.

Category Photo Gallery, Westward Home Author Candy Moulton Date 06/01/2009
Following Mountain Man Jim Bridger
At the edge of the Red Desert, but situated in a lush valley within view of a mountain range that retains snow on its peaks much of the year, Fort Bridger was strategically located on the route emigrants and freighters used when traveling across the West.
Category Renegade Roads Author Candy Moulton Date 05/01/2009
Trailing Narcissa Whitman & Eliza Spalding

Narcissa had entered into a marriage of convenience with Dr. Marcus Whitman to fulfill her lifelong desire to serve a mission. 

 
Category Renegade Roads Author Candy Moulton Date 04/01/2009
Cowboy Bunkhouse

Dee Steed was born in Wyoming's Star Valley; he knocked around Wyoming with his cowboy father, worked cows himself and spent six years on the rodeo circuit.

Category Photo Gallery, Westward Home Author Candy Moulton Date 04/01/2009