Republished from Western Confluence, which covers natural-resource science and management in the West. Western Confluence is published by the University of Wyoming Institute of Environmental and ...

Are you tired of the same old adventureless vacations? Consider staying at a dude ranch! Vacationing at a dude ranch is a ...

One hundred horses and a lone donkey clattered from the corral. Behind them, cottonwood trees burned egg-yolk yellow and the mountains blurred to silhouettes. Hooves drummed and dust scattered. I had ...

It's not easy to find a travel experience that can transport you to a different world, but the dude ranch fits the bill. On these spacious properties, the Western culture is alive and well. You'll ...

Regional books of interest for April: American Dude Ranch by Lynn Downey (University of Oklahoma Press) “American Dude Ranch,” by Lynn Downey (University of Oklahoma) Nothing embodies the life of the ...

In the late-1800s, big-shot city slickers (known to cattle ranchers as “dudes”) discovered that ranch visits out West made for unforgettable getaways. This spurred a unique niche of travel as working ...

Decades before statehood in 1912, the riches of the Sonoran Desert attracted prospectors and the outlaws who followed them. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo and the wildest of the Wild West ...