Made using Photoshop CS2. Translatable.
Works on most pictures!

Crop and sharpen your base; whatever you usually do.

New Color Balance layer-(make sure Preserve Luminosity is checked)
Midtones: -5, -5, 5.
Shadows: -5, -5, -5.
Highlights: 5, 5, 5.

New Curves layer-

RGB-
first point: input; 53, output; 74
second point: input; 134, output; 170.

New Hue/Saturation layer-
Master: 0, 5, 0
Reds: 0, 10, 0
Yellows: 0, 5, 0

New color fill layer-
#5a3f17 exclusion, 30%

New Brightness/Contrast layer-
B: 5
C: 7

New levels layer-
RGB-
50, 1.25, 25

More Examples-



PSD:
Here.
I'd love to see your results!