Westerners are coming to Hot Springs for its 2025 National Convention, Sept. 17-20
The local chapter of Westerners International will host the organization’s annual national convention this September (open to the public). Pictured here are members of the local chapter at its August meeting held at the Pioneer Museum. Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald-Star
HOT SPRINGS — Westerners International, an organization of Western history buffs, is holding their 2025 convention in Hot Springs later this month on Sept. 17-20, at the impetus of Cal Larive, head of the Fall River County chapter — or in the group’s parlance, “sheriff” of the local “corral.”
“My wife and I had gone to a couple national conventions in other states, and thought how Hot Springs — hom…