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Trinidad born Western artist A.R. Mitchell has produced work that's been celebrated for a century for its ability to depict "the actual West".

It's 1973, and construction work on Pikes Peak is taking place near the summit. One worker stopped near Glen Cove to smoke a cigarette when a wet and nude woman appeared. According to legends, the worker threw his leather jacket around her shoulders and gave her a ride to the nearest toll booth.  He described her grip as "clammy," and her breath against his skin as "freezing, icy cold." The woman didn't stick around once they stopped at the toll booth, throwing off his jacket and running back up the hill, according to records of his account. The next morning, the worker took a receipt he d...

On the Santa Fe Trail: 1821-2021 The bicentennial of the National Historic Trail is a great reason to hit the road and rediscover why it is the West’s original “Mother Road.” When you get right down to it, almost every trail ever blazed was for profit. Despite all the glory associated with them, the lure of money was behind the Chisholm Trail (first for trade goods, then for selling longhorns in Kansas)and the California and Klondike trails (to find goldfields) and the like. The Santa Fe Trail, on the other hand, never even thought about fame—it was all about money.