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...
American West
The Rio Grande, May 2003 Nothing drives comments like discussions of water use in the West, so let's go down that path once more so I can link to this.
I admit I've always found the fascination with Route 66 a bit perplexing, since it's really just another road that, outside of New Mexico, does not really go through our.
The borderlands historian Andrew Graybill's latest book is an extremely readable saga into the great complexities of what it has meant to be mixed-race in the American West. The Red and the White is a set of family biographies from one Montana family that originated...
The impacts of climate change upon my beloved American West are only just beginning to be felt: Colorado alone could lose 45% of its aspen stands over the next 45.
In the last 50 years, there's been a lot of sadness in the environmental community over the destruction caused by many western dams. Glen Canyon is the most famous case,.
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...
The government using kid gloves with Cliven Bundy has just encouraged others in the West to step up their aggression against government land managers. First, Utah: After two armed men.
The Sagebrush Rebellion is alive and well among yahoo western ranchers who rely on the federal government to survive but resent its presence when it does anything but facilitate private.
I know Bob Nolan and the boys long ago taught you that tumbleweeds were a charming part of the West: But in fact, tumbleweeds, actually Russian thistle, is a nasty invasive species that when combined with the kind of drought presently afflicting the West, become...
As I have said for many years now, agriculture is going to lose out in the water wars of the West. With continued urban growth and the political weight behind.
Soldiers cutting up abandoned horse during General George Crook's "Horsemeat March" to punish the Lakota after the Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876. It was called this because the American troops.