I never tire of the Lewis and Clark story. L & C weren’t the first to chart the route they took (the Canadians beat them to it, with the MacKenzie expedition, and the French fur trappers had, of course, already been wandering that part of the west for years), and their journey’s success did spell ultimate doom for the
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When I first saw this Elizabeth Lewis Scott painting at a Lexington, Kentucky exhibit of works by members of the American Academy of Equine Artists in 2003, I stood in front of it for several minutes, completely amazed. I felt as if the artist had painted one of my most vivid memories, from working as a horse wrangler in Montana.
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If Elinore Pruitt Stewart had had a computer, she could have been a champion blogger. She didn’t even have electricity. She lived in the middle of an often frozen nowhere, near Burnt Fork, Wyoming, in the early 1900s. When she came to Wyoming, Elinore was no stranger to hardship, or to rural life. Born near Ft. Smith, Arkansas in
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