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 before Utah lawmakers are set to convene, dozens of researchers are calling on them to...
American West
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.
For our latest podcast, we interview Erika Bsumek, Professor of History at the University of Texas, about her brand new book The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession.
When I teach my environmental history courses, I tell my students that if they want to work for the rest of their lives, go get a degree in water law and move to the West. The fighting over diminishing water is never-ending and one amazing...
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.
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.
This is the grave of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, as well as others who died with them when the Cayuse struck against the missionary colonialists in 1847. Born in 1802 in Federal Hollow, New York, Marcus Whitman mostly grew up in Massachusetts after the death...
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.
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.
This is the grave of John Wesley Powell. Born in Mount Morris, New York in 1834, Powell grew up poor. His father was an itinerant preacher who came over from England a few years before his son was born. The family moved around a lot...
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.
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.