Western history, books, film and television, cowboy poetry and music, and the arts of the West.
Her parents’ first ranch became the EagleVail golf course. Susan Nottingham has now put 18,484 acres of the Nottingham Ranch near Burns under a conservationRead More »Susan Nottingham keeps her parents’ ranch near Burns from going the way of their first one
Martha Jane Cannary spent much of her life in Wyoming’s forts and rail towns. Here is what the records show, what she claimed, and howRead More »Calamity Jane in Wyoming: separating the record from the legend
William F. Cody founded a Wyoming town, died in Denver and was buried on Lookout Mountain above Golden. How two states came to share, andRead More »Buffalo Bill Cody’s Colorado and Wyoming legacy, from Cody to Lookout Mountain
A reading list of twelve Western novels that hold up, with notes on why each matters, including two set close to home in Wyoming andRead More »Twelve Western novels worth reading, from The Virginian to Lonesome Dove
The 2004 film Hidalgo was promoted as the true story of Frank Hopkins and his mustang. Horse historians and researchers have challenged nearly every claim.Read More »Hidalgo and the Frank Hopkins debate: what historians say about the endurance-ride story
Gunsmoke ran on CBS television from 1955 to 1975, longer than any other prime-time drama of its era. A look at the show and atRead More »Gunsmoke’s twenty-year run, and the actor who played Matt Dillon
The short story has carried some of the best Western writing. Here are collections worth finding, from 19th-century classics to Annie Proulx’s Wyoming stories.
A guide to Tom Selleck’s Western films and TV movies, from The Sacketts and Quigley Down Under to Crossfire Trail and Monte Walsh, and whereRead More »Tom Selleck’s Westerns, from The Sacketts to Monte Walsh