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Scalia and the West

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On June 26, 2015
The most important part of Scalia's dissent is when he defines California as not part of the West. Because San Francisco and Hollywood no doubt. This is like an even dumber version of the inevitable graduate seminar in US West history argument over what is...

Rain Barrels

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On June 15, 2015

That collecting rainwater on your own property in barrels remains illegal in Colorado is a great entry point into the complex and extraordinarily contentious water politics of the West, where.

Richard Maxwell Brown, RIP

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On January 2, 2015
Richard Maxwell Brown, the nation's preeminent historian of violence, former president of the Western History Association, and my undergraduate honors' thesis advisor, died in September, seemingly without other historians knowing. The WHA, a close knit organization, has made no announcement, and I only stumbled across...

Today in Bundyism

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On May 11, 2014
There should be arrests and prosecutions: An illegal all-terrain vehicle (ATV) ride planned this weekend through Recapture Canyon in Utah is the latest flashpoint between anti-government activists and federal land managers. The illegal ride is already drawing criticism from the Navajo Nation, putting American Indian...
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