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 project and I know a number...
American West
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.
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 the 1803-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, has been rediscovered, apparently misfiled in historical archives. The...
I am fascinated and horrified by the entirety of what is happening to the United States, but for both life and research reasons, I am especially interested in how this.
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..
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 necessary use of scarce water in a desert. But the real water hog...
As the Bundys and their merry band of fascists descend on the Klamath River to try and start another war with federal officials there, the reality is that the Klamath.
The West right now is just...ugh. Just about every indicator of drought is flashing red across the Western U.S. after a dry winter and warm early spring. The snowpack is.
This is the grave of Bat Masterson. The thing to understand up front about people such as Masterson, or anyone who was involved in the "classic" western gunfights of the post-Civil War period is that they were all violent thugs. As my undergraduate advisor Richard...
The Klamath River in southern Oregon and northern California has long been one of the most controversial waterways in America. It's a situation where there isn't enough water to go.
Look, if there's one thing that unites Oregonians, it's that they really just want to be part of Idaho. Wonkette is of course hilarious about this: An Oregon dude who.