Dear HCN, Jeffery Smith’s plaintive essay, “Sensory Deprivation on the High Plains’ (HCN, 7/7/97), reflects what Patrick Jobes has called the “deconstructing” of Western communities. In his decade-long study of demographic trends in the Gallatin Valley of Montana, Jobes found that newcomers had, on average, moved four times in the past decade. “Newcomers have a […]