All Blog Posts Tagged 'National' (5)

Using various sources (including among others, a map by Mr. Bell, and one provided by the National Archives,) I drew up my own to give the reader of a specific chapter in my book "Western Legend" a better understanding of the geography of Tombstone.  I felt the narrative would be less confusing if I provided this along with a key or legend.  The publisher, unfortunately, could not figure out how to scale down the file size and get it into the pdf, so the map was removed from Chapter 10.  As…

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Just heard that this commemorative day exists. Is anyone on this list involved in events scheduled for July 23, 2011 for National Day of the Cowboy. It's coming up soon, so how does a person put together something on short notice?

The Cross Town Cowboys will be celebrating their fourth year as performers for the National Festival of the West this next week, March 18-20. We hope that all of friends and fans from Arizona will attend this landmark event. There have been some major changes with the festival and we look forward to another great year in Scottsdale. We look forward to seeing you all there! New friends and memories will be made!

The deadline is finally here: April Fool's Day is today, and your photo contest submissions are due, no foolin'.

And in honor of April Fool's Day, I recommend checking out a podcast of Elko's own Walter "Bimbo" Cheney, reciting his poem "April's Fool." Thanks to the great folks at the Western Folklife Center, you…

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I watched a good Western on the Encore Channel this weekend, one of the interesting, rare examples of the genre with film noir elements. Directed by Andre de Toth, who specialized in Western and crime films, the movie features Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake as the leads. While the plot could be characterized as the standard Western land-grab by an unscrupulous, evil rancher, the usually clear moral divide is considerably muddied by the presence of Lake (de Toth's wife at the time) who uses her… Continue