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 first generation of easterners fascinated by a disappearing American West and he would make his...
American West
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.
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, unionists bombed the Los Angeles Times because it was so anti-union. But the city's right-wing...
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.
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 understand what NAFTA is) to the 9th Circuit, he dropped something that is genuinely pretty...
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.
This is the grave of Virgil Earp. Born in 1843 in Hartford, Kentucky, Earp joined the Union army in 1863, serving with the 83rd Illinois Infantry. He was married at.
For most of you, the issue of western public lands is probably not as important as the other horrors that is the Republican policy agenda. But for a westerner, this stuff is exceedingly important, whether you are a hiker or you are Cliven Bundy. Jason...
Exhibit A: Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five of their followers, charged in the armed takeover of a federally owned Oregon wildlife sanctuary in January, were acquitted Thursday of federal.
I know the law job market is horrible, but I always felt that going into water law in the West was a pretty much limitless market, given the brutal battles.