Ghost town is more than just some dusty old mining camp. For one thing, it’s all indoors. And whereas the enchantment if a real ghost town is its sparseness, the fun of this one is marveling at how much stuff it has managed to pack into its twelve different buildings.
The Garden of Eden is located on a pleasant, tree-lines residential street, but it isn’t nearly as peaceful as you’d expect Eden to be.
Leslie Grimes painted three murals for the Farmer John Meats Company in the West, and although the one he did in Vernon, California, is probably the widest known- because it was featured in the background of a scene in Antonioni’s film Zabriskie Point (1970) – the one on Grant Street in Tucson is the one we like most.
The quintessential Route 66 motel, with the prettiest sign in Albuquerque (the city with the best roadside signs in the West): an Indian chief with a headdress in rainbow neon colors.
Lee and Ruby Carel, proprietors of the Silver Queen , wanted to honor the Comstock Lode, which yielded more than a billion dollars; worth of silver and made Virginia City one of the most prosperous places in America in the 1870s.
LAS VEGAS – Team ropers split the world championship. The outcome simply wasn’t the one that appeared most likely. The possibility of a header from one team winning the world championship with a heeler from another partnership became more and more real as the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo wore on, but in a final-round stunner, heeler Jade Corkill came from behind to capture his first gold buckle along with Chad Masters, who won a world championship for the second time.
LAS VEGAS – So much for rookie jitters.
The 29 first-timers at this year’s Wrangler National Finals Rodeo have pulled their weight through the first eight rounds.
LAS VEGAS – Jesse Wright may not leave here with multiple Wrangler National Finals Rodeo records like he did a year ago.
But the saddle bronc rider may take something much shinier home to Milford, Utah.
LAS VEGAS – Les Shepperson need not look far to be reminded what a gold buckle looks like.
The 34-year-old steer wrestler’s father, Frank, won the world championship in that event in 1975 and might just be wearing that gold buckle in Las Vegas as you read this.
LAS VEGAS – Winning back-to-back gold buckles is a feat in and of itself.
In this era of ProRodeo, repeating as world champion after earning that title for the very first time is almost unheard of.