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American Cowboy magazine May/June 2003
100 Years of Western Film In the early 1930s, the vast popularity of Western movies began to ebb, thanks to the Great Depression and
the public’s embrace of gangster films glamorizing bad guys like Al Capone. But soon a new kind of star-nattily
dressed singing cowboys-brought audiences back in droves, while their nonmusical counterparts-cowboy heroes
played by William Boyd (better known as Hopalong Cassidy) and John Wayne-became the idols of
several generations of Western fans.. more...
The
Voyage of Discovery The great moment had finally arrived. The day that Thomas Jefferson had dreamed of for a score of
years and the day for which his friend and private secretary, Meriwether Lewis, had been preparing for
many months, dawned rainy and warm over St. Louis. It was May 14, 1804, and at last all was ready for the
"Voyage of Discovery" to get underway. more...
Travel:
Colorado
It’s been said that time changes everything, and in Colorado, that "everything" is its culture. During
recent centuries, an array of cultures, each with its distinctive traditions, ambitions, and lifestyles,
intersected here, and the result has been a bounty of history, beauty, and inspiration for today’s traveler.
From the state’s first inhabitants-Native Americans-to explorers, trappers, miners, and homesteaders, each
has left a cultural trace, not defined so much by race as by what they left behind that provides the background
and focal point of Colorado’s cultural portrait today. more ...
100 Years of Western Film
The
Voyage of Discovery
Travel:
Colorado
