For my money, Jim Stiles, along with a small handful of others like Charles Bowden and Doug Peacock, is one of the leading fresh, outside-the-box voices in the American West since Ed Abbey’s death (HCN, 5/29/06: Clinging hopelessly to the past). We need more of them. Unfortunately, prophets like Stiles (here meaning not smitten-by-gawd predictors, but […]
David Cremean
Posted inOctober 13, 2003: The Big Story Written Small
Chalk it up to bolt dolts
Mike Ryan’s defense of rock climbing (HCN, 7/7/03: Invasion of the rock jocks) — that “climbers aren’t just dirtbags … it’s mainstream now” and that they now are “doctors and lawyers” (and such, I must add) who by God “drive SUVs and have credit cards” is telling: telling us it’s an elitist avaricious capitalism that […]
Posted inOctober 28, 2002: Shadow Creatures
Bishop Love: Based on a true story
Greetings, HCN, Readers of Scott Bridges’s letter (HCN, 9/30/02: This land holds a story the church won’t tell) may be interested in knowing that Ed Abbey most likely artistically pilfered and altered Bishop Love’s carnotite-eating from a true red, white and blue American specimen of idiotic boosterism. In 1984, Edgemont, S.D., former Mayor Matt Brown […]