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The Native Home Of Hope

LETTERS

WALKING WEST • Celebrating the form and function of the cowboy boot.

ABOVE BOARD • Designer Rush Jenkins wasn’t at all stumped when tasked with transforming a humble log cabin into a haute home.

RUSTIC REDEFINED • For options that are log-cabin adjacent, elevated manufactured timber homes and “barndominiums” can achieve a balance of functional tradition and decorative elegance. Timberlyne Group’s Cody Wortman tells us about the inspiration behind these projects.

CAST-IRON KING • For The Ranch at Rock Creek executive chef Joshua Drage, there’s nothing quite so classic as a cast-iron meal cooked outdoors in the Mountain West.

CHEF JOSHUA DRAGE’S CAST-IRON RECIPES

COWBOY CAMPFIRE BREAKFAST • We asked Chef Joshua Drage for his secrets to the best biscuits, gravy, and cowboy coffee. Here’s what the campfire-cooking pro told us.

GIBSON: A HANDCRAFTED AMERICAN ORIGINAL • The legendary guitar maker started in a home workshop in 1902 and thrives more than a century later as an iconic brand of fretted instruments coveted by musicians everywhere.

NEW HOME FOR THE NEW WEST • The brand-new Bowie House brings a high-end, horse-centric hotel to Fort Worth’s Cultural District.

JO ELLARD’S FORT WORTH FAVORITES • We asked the dynamic cowgirl, entrepreneur, and owner of Bowie House about her favorite spots in Cowtown.

BEAUTIFUL BEADER • Bead by bead, piece by piece, the work of Crow designer Brocade Stops Black Eagle is a labor of love.

THE RUSSELLS IN DENVER • More than 100 years after Old West icon C.M. Russell and wife Nancy visited the Mile High City for a solo show, a new exhibition celebrates their stay.

SOUTH DAKOTA’S DIGNITY OF EARTH AND SKY • Dale Claude Lamphere’s tribute to Native peoples also celebrates the beauty of the Great Plains.

ART CALENDAR

STAYING GROUNDED • HE IS A MODERN—AND MODEST — ICON OF COUNTRY MUSIC. CHRIS STAPLETON OPENS UP ABOUT THE WORK, THE SONGS, HIS FAMILY, AND WHAT IT REALLY MEANS TO BE AN ENTERTAINER.

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL • Photographers from across the country—from Kalispell, Montana, to Wickenburg, Arizona—submitted breathtaking, all-American scenes of Western life to our annual Visions of the West photo contest.

HORSE OF DREAMS • AMERICAN QUARTER HORSES CONTINUE TO WIN PEOPLE OVER WITH THEIR WILLING MINDS, MIGHTY HEARTS, AND GREAT BEAUTY.

LONESOME DOVE AT 35 • A MILESTONE ANNIVERSARY OF THE CLASSIC MINISERIES BASED ON LARRY MCMURTRY’S NOVEL OCCASIONS SOME REMINISCING ABOUT THE FILM AND A MEMORABLE LUNCH WITH ROBERT DUVALL DISCUSSING HIS STARRING ROLE THAT ALMOST WASN’T.

THE MCMURTRY SHE KNEW • Writing partner Diana Ossana remembers the author, the man, and Lonesome Dove.

PATH LIT BY LIGHTNING • One of the greatest athletes of all time, Jim Thorpe died impoverished before seeing his Olympic medals restored.

SOCIETY

THE BIG BREAKAWAY • Behind the rise of breakaway roping, American rodeo’s hottest event bringing hardworking, tough-as-nails cowgirls into championship arenas.

IN THE BUNKHOUSE with RED STEAGALL • THE OFFICIAL COWBOY POET OF TEXAS

LEGENDARY COWBOY • C&I pays tribute to Larry Mahan, one of rodeo’s finest.

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