Preserving the Culture of the Old West
By Scott Dyke In the recounting of the Old West there is this tendency, focusing on the male interactions. You know, whiskey, shootouts and the posse thing. That would be half a story. There were
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By Voices of the West The largest “Round Up” of Professional Wild West Entertainers, that include World Champion Gun Spinner, “Johnny Hotshot”, Hollywood Stuntman Dr. Buck Montgomery and his award winning Professional Stuntmen and Actors,
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From The Westerner Blog It’s one of the most complicated stories to come from Santa Fe’s 400-year-old Palace of the Governors. Don Pedro Villasur, commander-in-chief of the Spanish forces of the then-Spanish colony of New Mexico
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From The Westerner Blog Native Americans may have kept a breeding colony of scarlet macaws in the American Southwest starting more than 1,000 years ago, a new study finds. The birds were raised for their
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By Harry Alexander Bunker de France, co-host of Emil Franzi’s Voices of the West internet radio program was featured in the Summer edition of Western Way Magazine. The article covered his career as a Hollywood
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by Tom Prezelski On July 3, the Pima County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution declaring “Empire Ranch, Walter L. Vail, and Arizona Cowboy Heritage Day” to honor the legacy of one of the most storied Anglo-American
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By Scott Dyke History has granted Wyatt Earp a mantle of notoriety that places him among the pantheon of the West’s greatest lawmen. Of course, history is often skewed. Even Wyatt did not identify himself
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By Alison Bunting Walter Vail and Herbert Hislop began their search for a ranch to purchase soon after their arrival in Tucson in early July, 1876. Hislop wrote: “Rested and just looked round the
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By Scott Dyke / Green Valley News When you buy a property, there is a title search, seeking the history, and if there are no liens or questions, title insurance is purchased from an insurance
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By SoAzNewsX It’s rodeo time in Tucson! The Fiesta de las Vaqueros celebration gets underway on Sat. Feb. 17 at the Tucson Rodeo Grounds on South 6th Avenue with more than 450 amateur riders and
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