Thursday, August 9, 2012

Daily Life on an Old West Cattle Drive

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Texas Longhorn and bluebonnets.  Photo copyright D.S. Dollman. Although dirty, stinky, dangerous and exhausting, cattle drives just ...
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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Frontier Recipes from Legends of America

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More frontier recipes from my friends at Legends of America. Frontier Recipes: The "Real" Old Stuff of Cowboy Days.
Saturday, August 4, 2012

Night Life on the Cattle Drive and why Cowboys Sing to the Cattle

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View of Sandia Mountains from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Photo by D.S. Dollman. I spent a late evening in the desert with my dogs watch...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Literature of the Wild West: Louis L'Amour

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"I think of myself in the oral tradition--as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's th...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry, Cowboy Poetry.com, Cowboy Art

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A post for those interested in contemporary cowboys: If you are not connected to these two pages I would highly recommend that you check the...
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Monday, July 2, 2012

Aspen and Ashcroft, Colorado--Old West Mining Towns

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Mining in the Old West was a profitable business. It was also a risky, heartbreaking business. In fact, according to The History Channel...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The Outrageous, Notorious, Mysterious Life of Calamity Jane

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In 1953, Warner Bros. Studios released the musical extravaganza Calamity Jane starring Doris Day as the boisterous, boastful, gun-toting Ca...
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