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Article: Colorado Springs surprises with history and scenic grandeur.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2002
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Byline: Patrick Kampert
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. _ Scotty Vaughn is the emcee at the 50-year-old Flying W Ranch, a working cattle ranch that doubles as an Old West town and a musical dinner theater for 1,300 people.
The food is served on tin plates, the lemonade and iced tea in tin cups, the humor is clean, and the cowboy music by Vaughn and the rest of the Flying W Wranglers (who have played for presidents and backed up country music stars) is authentic and contagiously fun.
When he's not donning fake animal skins (for the song "Mississippi Squirrel Revival"), he's riffing on his first _ and last _ ski trip, the Flying W menu and the quality of ...