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Article: There's historical society in every Western state, and you can join.
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- December 1, 1987
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There's a historical society in every Western state, and you can join
If you're caught by the rough romance of the early West, you'll delight in the wealth of regional narrative you'll be offered as a member of any of the West's state historical societies.
These societies, as well as dozens of others representing individual communities or counties, are valuable repositories of the American frontier experience.
Trappers, traders, whalers, prospectors, pioneers, cowboys, Indians, miners, missionaries, desperadoes, and adventurers are among the characters whose stories form the stuff of historical society arrchives. Sometimes their saddles, ...