Bill Croke

In 1977 I was a college student in Northern California and had a summer job working for the Plumas National…

The American West has a relatively short history that can be measured in a few generations. Therefore, as a literary…

Did the legendary bandit Butch Cassidy die in a shootout in San Vincente, Bolivia, in November, 1908, or live to…

The West’s contemporary regional literary scene is known for taking itself seriously. It’s a case of a cultural reaction to…

… a most tremendious looking animal, and extreemly hard to kill notwithstanding he had five balls through his lungs and…

The forest fire season is off to an early start in the West this year, reflecting the fact that mountain…

After breakfast we elected a man named Walker, from Detroit, for supper. He was very good. I wrote his wife…

In an America enamored of celebrity and the obscene amounts of money that goes with it, there is still present…

Ted Turner began accumulating properties in the West starting with his acquisition of the legendary Flying D Ranch (129,000 acres)…

Despite local misgivings Gray wolves (Canis Lupus) were reintroduced to the Northern Rockies in 1995 as an “experimental” population. That…