Today's Wild West

Montana's Deep Canyon Ranch / The Art of the Custom Hat / Montana Sweetgrass / Monterey Cowboy Music Festival

A Montana dude ranch with a mission of healing - Deep Canyon Ranch; the art of the custom hat at Law Dog Hats in Billings, Montana; the Native American woman harnessing the power of Montana Sweet Grass; California's Monterey Cowboy Music Festival.

Rankin Ranch / Cowboy Lawyers / Riding the Rose Parade / American Indian Arts Marketplace

California's Rankin Ranch - working cattle and welcoming guests since 1863; Saddle up with The Cowboy Lawyers Association; Behind the scenes with the horses at the Pasadena Rose Parade; and the Native artists of the American Indian Arts Marketplace.

Tombstone / Tucson / Rillito

Tombstone Monument Ranch; A visit to Geronimo's hideout at Arizona's Cochise Stronghold; John Wayne's Old Tucson Movie Studios; Rescuing historic Rillito Park Race Track.

Mustangs / Mules / Brenn Hill / Olaf

A wilderness horseback adventure to visit the wild mustangs of California's Easter Sierra; Celebrating all thing mule at Mule Days in Bishop, CA; The music of Western "sage rocker' Brenn Hill; and the art of Olaf Weighorst - the Dean of Western Art.

Bonanza / Bair / Virgelle / Buckles

Fast rides and cattle drives at Montana's Bonanza Creek Ranch; The West's "Hearst Castle" - The Bair Family Museum in Martinsdale, MT; Crossing the Missouri on Montana's River Ferries; The homestead cabin B&B in Virgelle, MT.

White Stallion Dude Ranch

Learning to ride horses - and a lot more - at the White Stallion Dude Ranch in Tucson, AZ; Plus acclaimed Western painter and sculptor Loren Entz.

McGarry Ranches / Bootmaker / Shiloh Rifles

The rugged cowboy life at McGarry Ranches in Rexburg, ID; Idaho cowboy and custom bootmaker Seth Teichert; and recreating the rifles of the Old West at the Shiloh Sharps Rifle Company in Big Timber, Montana.

Chief Joseph Trail Ride

Ride the 1877 trail of the Nez Perce Indians flight to freedom, on the week long Chief Joseph Trail Ride in Montana; Plus Montana's Mystical Deer Medicine Rocks, of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Custer.

Ghost Train / Hansen / Jesse James / Rawhide Braider / Virginia City

Take a ride - or take the controls - of the century old Ghost Train in Ely, NV; Meet the builders of authentic stagecoaches at South Dakota's Hansen Wheel & Wagon; and the historic Minnesota bank where Jesse James met his match.

Western Wickenburg, AZ

Experience the desert outside Wickenburg, Arizona with the Desert Caballeros Trail Ride, Custom Cowboy hat maker Jimmy the Hat Man, plus Wickenburg's Flying E Dude Ranch.

Reno Rodeo Cattle Drive

Living the dream on a cattle drive, through picturesque Nevada, with the Reno Rodeo Cattle Drive, ride a covered wagon with the Cattle Drive Wagon Train; Western singer-songwriter Dave Stamey.

Lone Pine Film Festival

On location at the Lone Pine Film Festival in Lone Pine, CA, where Hollywood's been shooting Westerns - and lots of other movies - for nearly a century; plus a visit with Rifleman stary Johnny Crawford.

Rimrock / Cody / Stoecklein / Pipestone

A visit to Rimrock Dude Ranch in Cody, WY; Learning cowboy photography from the pros at a Stoecklein Western Photo Workshop in Mackay, ID; and making peace pipes at Pipestone National Monument in Pipestone, MN.