This sort of thing is going to get more and more common. For decades, the assumption among people who want to move to the Southwest is that the government won’t let them run out of water. Never
This is the grave of Wyatt Earp. The thug Earp was born in 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois. This was a family that moved around on the frontier a lot. They lived in California for awhile but ended up in Io
For the latest LGM podcast, we were honored enough to have Kevin Waite of Durham University in the U.K. to talk about his new book West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire. Thi
When we look at what has happened to our nation, we are not spending enough time on how so much of this has originated in the rural West. I’m looking at this to some extent in my current book pr
For the latest LGM podcast, I spoke with Adam Sowards of the University of Idaho about his new book, Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands. We had a g
Personally, I always thought William Clark was a horrible colonizer but I guess it’s good to have more evidence of the point: A long-missing map, hand-drawn by William Clark of the 1803-1806 Lew
For the latest podcast, I was happy to talk to Rebecca Scofield of the University of Idaho about her 2019 book Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West. In this, we talk about the myth and
Most of the attention on water supplies in the Southwest as to do with the region’s exploding population. Fair enough, and I’m not sure the fountains at the Bellagio are exactly a necessar