Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America’s Public Lands By John Clayton (Pegasus Books, 276 pages, $27.95)…
In a recent issue, High Country News (or HCN, a regional fortnightly newspaper published in Paonia, Colorado) Editor in Chief…
Tara Westover’s Educated: A Memoir (2018) landed on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list last year and remains (63 weeks), receiving…
It’s interesting to contemplate the settlement of the American West that was accomplished in eighty-six years (1804-1890), the equivalent of…
February 26 marks the centenary of Grand Canyon National Park, its designation issuing from the pen of President Woodrow Wilson…
In August, 1910, a huge fire burned three million acres (destroying whole towns and taking 87 lives) in Washington state,…
I’m a volunteer at my local public library in a small town in Idaho. I sort through donations of books,…
On a recent journey to visit my family in upstate New York, I took a side trip to Waterbury, Vermont….
Montana is one of those Western states with quirky electoral preferences and a history of splitting tickets. Small but divided…