The Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum comprises 160 horse-drawn vehicles and antique motor vehicles used for the pioneer Wyoming city’s Cheyenne Frontier Days parades every July. The event was established in 1897 to bolster the local economy by celebrating the unique western experience of Cheyenne, explains Mike Kassel, associate director/curator of collections. The annual event celebrates the importance of the Transcontinental Railroad, the city’s role during the Indian Wars and its golden years as a major center of the 19th-century cattle boom. The first Union Pacific Railroad train reached Cheyenne on November 14, 1867. “Organizers hoped to give visitors […]
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‘Do you know what a paramedic is?’ —EMERGENCY! Classic cars gain panache and value with racing history: They’ve won at Le Mans, Indy or Daytona or run the Mille Miglia through Italy. Fire trucks and rescue equipment acquire this pedigree at their first call to service. They are the mobile tools first responders depend on to save lives and property: in 19th-century Philadelphia, in Los Angeles and other areas such as central Arizona, when, almost a decade ago, two crew buggies delivered the fated 19 hotshots to the Granite Mountain wildfire in the Bradshaw Mountains. The County of Los Angeles […]
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‘The highest privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.’ -General George S. Patton Jr. Next time you’re on I-10 east or west near Indio, California, watch for those light-brown road signs noting a point of tourist interest ahead. One is for the General Patton Memorial Museum; if you have the time, stop off at exit 173, Chiriaco Summit, once part of the Desert Training Center in World War II. Eight decades ago what happened here helped in the battle to save freedom and democracy. About 28 miles east of Coachella and Indio, you can fill up […]
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Fred Wagenhals has always been driven. To race, to invent, to thrive, to live. The Paradise Valley, Arizona, resident and chairman and CEO of Ammo Inc. loves driving the four-wheel-drive Telluride he recently bought from Rusty Wallace Kia in Knoxville, Tennessee. A long-time friend and NASCAR Hall of Famer, Wallace was the 1984 NASCAR Cup series Rookie of the Year and, five years later, NASCAR Winston Cup champion. Wagenhals also has a large painting in his Scottsdale Airpark office of actor and car enthusiast James Dean; he’s standing next to the “#130” Porsche 550 Spyder Dean was killed in on […]
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