New Years Day is the first day of the new year, and many people look forward to improving themselves in the year ahead. Several of the most popular New Year’s resolutions are: Exercise more and lose weight; Get organized; Learn a new skill; save more money or spend less money; quit smoking and/or dr
Champagne and roses are a part of many Valentine Day Celebrations.
Love is in the air. Today is Valentine's Day, when sweethearts celebrate by giving their lovers flowers, balloons, chocolates or lace trimmed cards with heart felt verses expressing their love. But where did it start? Why do we ce
How the West was shot – by photography pioneer Lora Webb Nichols
With a camera that granted her entry into a working man’s world of cowboys and miners, Nichols was as much a pioneer as those she pictured
A self-portrait by Webb Nichols with her dog, Duke, 1899
Credit: Lora Webb Nichols Archive
Because Bert Oldman was sweet on Lora Webb Nichols, he gave her a camera for her 16th birthday, in 1899. Oldman was one of several hundred miners drawn to Encampment, Wyoming – then just four ramshackle wooden buildings and a huddle of tents – after a rich copper strike in the nearby Sierra Madre in 1897; Nichols was his wife-to-be.