Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Wigwam Village (Holbrook, Arizona)

What adventuresome lad or lass hasn’t dreamed of sleeping Indian-style in a wickiup under the stars way out West? Here’s your chance: a whole village of wigwams... Read More...

Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Tornado’s Grave (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)

Tornado was the greatest bull in rodeo history. Just outside the Cowboy Hall of Fame, he is interred along an ambling oath that takes visitors past some magnifi... Read More...

Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum (Tucson, Arizona)

Every year as part of Tucson’s gala Fiesta de Los Vanqueros in late February, the city stages the longest nonmotorized parade in America: 350 Conestoga wagons, ... Read More...

Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Tombstone (Tombstone, Arizona)

Tombstone, site of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, bills itself as “The Town Too Tough to Die.”... Read More...

Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Tom Mix Monument (Florence, Arizona)

Near this spot on Highway 89, the great cowboy movie actor Tom Mix died in a fatal one- car crash on October 12, 1940. He went out of the world as he had lives:... Read More...

Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Santo Domingo Trading Post (Domingo, New Mexico)

Here’s the place to stock up on rubber tom-toms, child sixe feathered war bonnets, and deerskin moccasins in styles that haven’t changed since Lucy and Desi tra... Read More...

Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Salt Palace (Grand Saline, Texas)

“We are the only salt house in North America,” said the woman in charge of the Salt Palace, and when we asked about salt houses on other continents she admitted... Read More...

Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Ponderosa Ranch (Incline Village, Nevada)

When “Bonanza” first went on the air in 1959, the Ponderosa Ranch where it was supposed to take place did not exist except as soundstages in Hollywood. Outdoor ... Read More...

Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Old Tucson (Tucson, Arizona)

Old Tucson consist of 140 buildings originally constructed in 1939 as a set for the movie Arizona, which took place in 1865 and featured some on thousand modern... Read More...

Twenty-Five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Old Rip’s Final Resting Place (Eastland, Texas)

Old Rip was pet horned toad who belonged to the son of Eastland Justice of the Peace Ernest Wood, and who was put into the cornerstone of the town courthouse, a... Read More...