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The historic Chico Hot Springs Resort, located thirty miles north of Yellowstone National Park and near the Pray Mountains in Montana, has been a vacation destination for more than a hundred years.  Guests not only come for the first-rate accommodations and the exhilarating springs, but also for the exceptional dining experience.  Author and co-owner of...

Mrs. Irene McCready and her companion-lover James McCabe debarked from the ship the Oregon in April 1849.  McCabe was one of the backers of the El Dorado gambling hall which opened not long after his arrival.  It was money wisely invested; no miner’s pick and shovel ever earned so much gold. Young Baynard Taylor, a...

The Principles of Posse Management: Lessons from the Wild West for Today’s Leaders is a collection of tales that reveal what Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Bill Tilghman, and other legends of the Old West knew about leadership.  That’s a clever twist on the classic shoot-em-up, black-hats-vs-white-hats story. In nearly every Western film prior to 1950, you’ll...

What do well known, Old West cowgirls Annie Oakley, Prairie Rose Henderson, Fox Hastings, and Bonnie McCarroll have in common?  They were all successful career women with habits that can be adopted by today’s professionals.  Think Tank CEO Gay Gaddis’ book Cowgirl Power:  How to Kick Ass in Business and Life uses the work ethic...

Enjoy these cowboy romance reads with your favorite glass of wine! Cowboy Seal Homecoming By Nicole Helm (Sourcebooks) Alex Maguire never thought he’d go home again. The perfect soldier, the perfect leader, he’s spent his whole life running away from Blue Valley, Montana—but when a tragic accident bounces him and two of his men out of...

Long before the screen placed the face of Mary Pickford before the eyes of millions of Americans, this girl, born August 13, 1860, as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses, had won the right to the title of “America’s Sweetheart.” Having grown up learning to shoot game to help support her family, Annie won first prize and...

These western romance novels will keep you entertained all through the fall and winter! Branded as Trouble by Delores Fossen (Harlequin) Delores Fossen has hit the mark for writing about bad boy cowboys. In this latest, Roman Granger was a bad kid in high school, but when he got his girlfriend pregnant, it changed his world...

Nora Flanagan has led a difficult life. Growing up as an Irish orphan in Boston in the late 1870s, she struggled to find work and enough money for food and shelter. The chance for a happy life seemed impossible until she met Tade Larkin. Tade is convinced they can do great things in Butte, Montana,...