Part 2 of The Reopening of the Western Frontier, a four-issue series exploring the West’s changing economic and cultural landscape.
Discouraging words in Montana
Miles City, a community of 10,000 which has spent 100 years living and breathing ranching, is experiencing traumatic change as economic and other forces shove the family ranch off the Western stage. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Global economy turns ‘lite’
The rural West believes all wealth comes out of the ground as food, as logs or as mined ore. Now comes noted writer Peter F. Drucker to say that the land’s commodities are increasingly irrelevant to the production of wealth. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Life without fanciness: Getting by on the Plains
When the thermometer drops to 35 degrees below zero and winds whip off the Sweetgrass Hills to sift snow through the cracks of his homestead shack near the Canadian border, Lloyd Oswood turns up the fuel oil burner in his converted wood stove. “It’s not the best goddamn thing,” he said as he took another…
The West lacks social glue
Despite its posturing as the helpless colonial victim of powerful corporations and the federal government, the West isn’t so much weak as it is passive. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/20.18/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E