F.O. Stanley’s Estes Park: the steam-car inventor who built a mountain town’s hotel
Freelan Oscar Stanley came to Estes Park in 1903 for his health and stayed to build the Stanley Hotel, a…
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People & Profiles
The people, past and present, who shape the Front Range, the Laramie Plains and the high valleys between them.
Nellie Tayloe Ross: Wyoming chose the first woman governor in the nation
In January 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman sworn in as governor of a U.S. state. She later ran the U.S. Mint for twenty years. A profile of the Cheyenne leader.
Will Henry: the screenwriter who became one of the finest Western novelists
Henry Wilson Allen wrote cartoons at MGM by day and Western novels as Will Henry and Clay Fisher, winning multiple…
Chris LeDoux: the Wyoming bareback champion who sang about the rodeo road
Chris LeDoux won a world bareback riding title in 1976 and built a music career selling tapes at rodeos. A…
Barry Corbin’s West: from Urban Cowboy and Lonesome Dove to No Country for Old Men
Texas-born actor Barry Corbin built a long career playing ranchers, lawmen and generals. A look at his Western roles and…
Louis L’Amour: the novelist who walked the ground he wrote about
Louis L'Amour wrote more than a hundred books, owned a ranch in Colorado and became the best-selling Western writer of…