I once lived in Northern California near a local landmark, a mountain named Mount Ina Coolbrith. It’s in the northern…
By a 6-1 margin, the San Francisco Board of Education recently voted to rename 44 schools in the city. The…
The post-Trump Republican Party is a mess. The Trump base, angry over a November election riddled with irregularities, and blamed…
The Collected Breece D’J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters Introduction by Jayne Anne Phillips (Library of America, 356 pages, $24.95) “As…
After 30 years of living in the West, I’ve come to the conclusion that of all the Western states Montana…
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…