Hang your hat at Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel downtown or contact the Cody Chamber of Commerce for information on booking a once-in-a-lifetime cowboy experience at a local historic guest ranch.ĭiscover legendary Tombstone, known internationally for its stormy and storied past, where walking the streets of Wyatt Earp and “Doc” Holliday and the infamous Gunfight Near the O.K. Don’t miss the Cody Nite Rodeo, Irma Hotel Gunfights, Old Trail Town and trail-riding at one of the local stables. Start at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, then head downtown to tour, shop, eat and drink. Courtesy NYPL Digital Collectionsīest Place to Live Like an Old West Cowboy (Summer)įrom the great outdoors to museums, Cody is one of the West’s most Western towns in which one can live like an Old West cowboy. His backcountry photos of the park, including Yellowstone Falls, were widely reproduced as individual images and stereographs. Haynes, Truman Ward Ingersoll was one of the most successful and comprehensive chroniclers of Yellowstone National Park in the 1880s. The mile-high city has mild winters with plenty of indoor and outdoor activities, including the popular Historic Downtown Prescott Walking Tours, the Annual Prescott Chamber Christmas Parade titled “A Hometown Christmas,” the Annual Courthouse Christmas Lighting and Sharlot Hall’s Annual Frontier Christmas, “The Spirit of Christmas Past Visits Prescott.” If you stay for the summer, don’t miss Frontier Days, the Frontier Days Rodeo Parade and the World’s Oldest Rodeo every Fourth of July.įollowing in the footsteps of photographers William Henry Jackson and F.J. The original Territorial capital of Arizona, Prescott celebrates its heritage throughout the year at local museums, hotels and restaurants. Courtesy Library of Congressīest Place to Live Like an Old West Cowboy (Winter) The popular national memorial was not deemed complete until October 31, 1941. Visionary sculptor Gutzon Borglum and a superintendent climbed on George Washington’s nose to inspect the progress of the massive public art project in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1932. We encourage you to make your plans this winter to travel to the American West, visit our editors’ and readers’ favorite places and make memories of a lifetime.Īnd don’t forget to take the highways you love the best. From winter to summer, spring to fall, our writers have traveled the length and breadth of the West to share with you the best of the West, including out-of-the-way, little-known local spots that shouldn’t be missed. Embrace the beauty of the West’s natural wonders, immerse yourself in a small Western town and relish the new friends you make along the way.
Spend time walking the grounds of national parks, monuments and sites, visit the local museums, spend time relaxing at a guest ranch or enjoy the refinements of a historic hotel. Walk, hike, ride, drive and fly the magnificent country we call the Western United States. There has never been a better time in our history to plan a heritage road trip to the Western United States.įor seven decades, the editors of True West magazine have encouraged our readers to pack their bags and go West to discover where history happened.
0 kommentar(er)
