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Western Views: Morro Bay, Calif.: Popular with birds, butterflies and tourists

RV Staff - July 11, 2019

By Len Wilcox WESTERN VIEWS Morro Bay is a small fishing town with about 10,000 residents. It’s on the coast about halfway between Los Angeles and...

Western Views: The rise and fall of Wupatki

RV Staff - July 4, 2019

By Len Wilcox WESTERN VIEWS The Four Corners country is famous for its pre-Columbus Native American civilizations. Most known are the tremendous cliff dwellings at Mesa...

Western Views: The story of Peg Leg and his legendary gold

RV Staff - June 27, 2019

By Len Wilcox WESTERN VIEWS It took strong wills and hearty bodies to settle the West, and a lot of our pioneering forefathers were the stuff...

Western Views: The ancient and interesting story of teosinte

RV Staff - June 20, 2019

By Len Wilcox WESTERN VIEWS Teosinte is a grass native to Central America. It’s also the first GMO food produced in the Americas and, as far...

Western Views: Mad Mike and his Wild Rocket Show

RV Staff - June 6, 2019

By Len Wilcox WESTERN VIEWS California has a reputation for attracting some very interesting characters. There’s been another one on the loose, making a name for...

Western Views: Basque sheepherders in the West

RV Staff - May 8, 2019

By Len Wilcox WESTERN VIEWS Do you remember sheepherder wagons? I recall seeing them off in the distance, out on the prairie, in those Wyoming hills...

The story of Shorty Harris, a colorful Rainbow Chaser

RV Staff - May 1, 2019

By Len Wilcox WESTERN VIEWS Ballarat, California, is a town on the edge of nowhere, a collection of mud huts and tin shanties in one of...

Western Views: Shep’s Lessons In Loyalty

RV Staff - April 17, 2019

By Len Wilcox WESTERN VIEWS I’d like to tell you an old story that still wanders the Montana countryside. It starts in the summer of 1936...

Western Views: Make the Border Wall an asset, not a liability

RV Staff - April 12, 2019

By Len Wilcox WESTERN VIEWS Back when I was growing up in a small town on the Rio Grande, the border with Mexico was just a...

Ever stood under the shade of a Moon Tree?

Chuck Woodbury - April 5, 2019

By Len Wilcox WESTERN VIEWS Have you ever stood under the shade of a Moon Tree? Well, you can, and you don’t have to go to...

The Catholic priest who became an unlikely Western hero

Chuck Woodbury - February 8, 2019

By Len Wilcox WESTERN VIEWS When we think of Western heroes, there’s a slew of them to consider. Men like Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Juan Bautista...

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