The story of the Puget Sound orca carrying around her dead calf for over 2 weeks is incredibly sad and moved a lot of people. That pod of orcas, one of the defining animals of the Northwest, is in danger of extinction because they aren't...
American West
Given that the government is reopening the investigation into Emmett Till's lynching, it's worth thinking about lynching a little bit. Mostly, when we think about lynching, we think about black.
Jennifer Graber's new book is an outstanding look at the white conquest of the West, examined through the lens of the various religious ideas and traditions involved in the conflict..
This is the grave of Doc Holliday. Born in 1851 in Griffin, Georgia, John Holliday grew up during the Civil War and then left for dentistry school in Pennsylvania in 1870. When he finished, he moved to St. Louis and then Atlanta. He may have...
This is the grave of George Bird Grinnell. Born in 1849 to an old money New York elite family, Grinnell graduated from Yale in 1870. He was part of a.
I hate these people so much. President Donald Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah on Monday by some two million acres, the largest rollback of.
I write from Helena, Montana, in a very brief return to civilization from days of camping and hiking in our nation's most beautiful places, all of which are in the West, because let's face it, everything in the eastern half of the nation is pretty...
It's a little hard to fathom today, but for many decades, Los Angeles was an unbelievably conservative city. Of course it was the home of Nixon and Reagan. In 1910,.
This is the grave of Phil Sheridan. Born in 1831 in Albany, New York, Sheridan's family moved to Ohio when he was young. He was a very lucky young man..
This is the grave of Henry McCarty, aka, William Bonney, aka, Billy the Kid. Billy the Kid was a murderous thug who achieved the Old West fame that eastern urban Americans were just eating up in the late 19th and early 20th century. Born in...
Above: Drill, Baby, Drill! In the midst of Trump's word diarrhea yesterday around everything from NAFTA (I feel like I should write about this but of course Trump doesn't even.
This is the grave of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody Born in 1846 in frontier Iowa, the family moved to Kansas in 1853, where Cody's father became involved in the.