I may be a westerner from west of the Cascades--the endlessly rainy corner of the region--but all of my family on both sides were from eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Idaho, so I always knew the dry side. Then I did my PhD at the...
American West
This is the grave of Dee Brown. Born in 1908 in Alberta, Louisiana, Brown mostly grew up in Ouachita County, Arkansas and then Little Rock. The family had enough money.
This is the grave of Charles Bent. Born in 1799 in Charleston, now West Virginia, Bent was the son of a judge named Silas Bent. The family moved to Missouri.
This is a guest post by Western Dave. I want to thank Erik and the other front-pagers for giving me the chance to spread the word about yet another outrage that is occurring and requires action. Like many of us in the current crisis, my...
This is the grave of Samuel Ovenshine. Born in 1843 in Philadelphia, Ovenshine was a kid who wanted to be a lawyer. Then the Civil War happened. Ovenshine joined the.
James Pogue is a very annoying writer about the contemporary American West. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is an exceptionally annoying Democratic congresswoman. That's not because she's a moderate in a purple district..
There is only one that Trump can really lose western Republicans--sell off the public lands. This is a big part of Project 2025 though. There's room for these jerks to maneuver--reducing some of the national monuments to encourage drilling won't do it. But there's only...
Wyoming Republicans are demanding the federal government turn over the vast amount of federal land it holds in the state--everything but Yellowstone but very much including Grand Teton National Park--so.
One of the only times the major American media talks about the rural West is during wildfire season, which has been sadly active this year. One question that rarely gets.
Going back to the Clinton administration, Democrats have sought to bolster their environmental credentials by creating large national monuments in the West. This is great. The problem though is that to administer them costs money and the money isn't there for it. So in some...
The Great Salt Lake is simply drying up due to the terrible management of water in the West and this is a very real environmental disaster in the making. Days.
Arizona has finally realized that it cannot grow forever because it doesn't have water to do so. And this is going to be very, very interesting to watch. In one.