By Troy Smith Both had been raised in south-central South Dakota, but each lived in a different community and attended a different school. Each knew who the other was, but they weren’t well acquainted. The day of her aunt’s estate sale was the first time Sara Sutton and Rich Grim had shared an actual […]
Looking Back
The Extraordinary Life of N.K. Boswell
by Bert Entwistle In 1853, Nathaniel Kimball (N.K.) Boswell, one of twelve children born in New Jersey to parents Lucinda and John, left home at age seventeen in search of his future. After several years working as a lumberjack in Michigan and Wisconsin, he met and fell in love with Martha Salsbury and they married […]
“We Pointed Them North . . .”
A 1939 epic book that chronicled the cowboy adventures of Teddy Blue Abbott by Bert Entwistle In the summer of 1937, Helena Huntington Smith, a writer and lover of the old West, was searching for some authentic background material for her novel about the cowboys and cattle drives of the 1870s and 1880s. Fortunately, for […]
Utah’s Last Cattle King
The remarkable story of Preston Nutter, a true Western entrepreneur Bert Entwistle Preston Nutter, born in what is now West Virginia in 1850 was the son of a well-known horse breeder. He lost his father when he was 9 and his mother shortly after. Sent to live with relatives he disliked, he ran away from […]
He Wandered West
The incredible story of Nat Love By Bert Entwistle Everyone loves a great Wild West story filled with six-guns, rustlers, Indians, horses and of course, great herds of cattle. There were a few old time cowboys that wrote about their adventures in the old days, but most just did their job and quietly faded away […]
Utah’s Last Cattle King
The remarkable story of Preston Nutter, a true Western entrepreneur By Bert Entwistle Preston Nutter, born in what is now West Virginia in 1850 was the son of a well-known horse breeder. He lost his father when he was 9 and his mother shortly after. Sent to live with relatives he disliked, he ran away […]
Orphan, Governor, U.S. Senator
By Bert Entwistle In 1860, a Texas cotton farmer named John Harvey Kendrick had the misfortune to get swept away in a swollen spring river and drown. His widow, Anna Maye, now left with two young children, died unexpectedly three years later of fever. The children, John Benjamin, age six, and his younger sister, Rosa, […]
Theodore's Cattle
By: Bert Entwistle As Theodore stepped down from the train he stood for a moment in the failing light taking it all in. It was early September of 1883, and his presence in the tiny Badlands town of Medora was hardly enough to impress anyone. At five foot nine, painfully skinny and the picture of poor health, his thin moustache […]
Writing The "Real" Old West
Inspired by poorly written accounts of life on the range, an authentic cowhand takes up the pen to set the record straight By: Bert Entwistle In 1903, Andy Adams published a book called The Log of a Cowboy. Although sold as a fiction novel, it was really Adams’ first person account of his years as […]
Let 'Er Buck
At The Pendleton Round-Up By: Lora Thorson The little ranching and farming town of Pendleton, Oregon, tucked up in the northeast corner of the state, got its start along the banks of the Umatilla River in the early 1860s. It has served as a center for the agricultural community and the Umatilla county seat since […]
