Before Squaw Valley – Sandra’s Occasional Newsletter, Dec 2021
A little bit of news… but not too much.
Grab your Levis and boots! Celebrate National Day of the Cowboy, July 25
Don your Western wear and watch a classic Western movie Owen Wister is said to have created the first romantic cowboy in 1902 with his best-selling novel The Virginian. The hero, known as “the Virginian”, was brave and honorable, tough but soft-spoken. The Virginian was portrayed on the big screen in 1929 by Gary Cooper,…
If These Mapes Hotel Champagne Coupes Could Talk
Whose lips had sipped from these champagne coupes (saucers) from the Mapes estate in Reno? Fellow Reno history buffs Deb Geraghty and James Stavena found a dozen of these vintage glasses in a Reno antiques shop and – most thankfully – sent two to Bill and me. One evening, as we sipped Manhattans from the…
My Latest for True West Magazine, June 2010
Thank you, Meghan Saar, Editor, for including my story in TRUE WEST Magazine (June 2010) Click on the link below to read… “The Divorce Seekers – An old-time wrangler recalls Reno, the ‘city of broken vows’, through his days at the Flying M.E. ranch” by Sandra V. McGee …