Meghan Saar


Stories by Meghan Saar

Trains, Mules and Horses

President Arthur's journey to Yellowstone featured in an impressive photograph auction.

Category Collecting the West, Photo Gallery Author Meghan Saar Date 02/01/2008
Trinidad, Colorado

Trinidad, Colorado, can boast its town founder's home is still around, in the Victorian style of its original owners.

Category What's it Like to Live There? Author Meghan Saar Date 02/01/2008
Tombstone, Arizona

In 1877, Ed Schieffelin discovered silver at a site where soldiers from Camp Huachuca warned all he would find was his tombstone.

Category What's it Like to Live There? Author Meghan Saar Date 01/28/2008
A Song of Praise for a Forgotten Folklore Collector

This book is an offering of the Indians, and I am only the recorder.

Category Collecting the West Author Meghan Saar Date 11/01/2007
Grass Valley, California

Once a small settlement of fortune hunters who arrived just after the Gold Rush to California began in 1848.

Category What's it Like to Live There? Author Meghan Saar Date 11/01/2007
Frank History

That our mailman didn't hoard some of the crazy packages we got from Phil Frank always surprised us.

Category Art of the True West, Photo Gallery Author Meghan Saar Date 11/01/2007
Denton, Texas

Founded in 1857 as a county seat, Denton grew slowly until the railroad reached town in the 1880s.

Category What's it Like to Live There? Author Meghan Saar Date 09/01/2007
Wyeth Sets Record with Hickok Oil

The most famous Poker hand of all time, Aces and Eights, might have won the pot, had the gambler not gotten shot in the back of the head.

Category Collecting the West Author Meghan Saar Date 09/01/2007
Audrey Hepburn vs. Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton's got a costume that beats out most of what passes for collectible in the Hollywood memorabilia category so far this year.

Category Collecting the West Author Meghan Saar Date 08/01/2007
Winnemucca, Nevada

Trappers and Basque sheepherders arrived in Winnemucca in the 1830's, but a Wild Bunch robbery put it on the Old West map.

Category What's it Like to Live There? Author Meghan Saar Date 08/01/2007