The canyon country of southern Utah and northern Arizona – the Colorado Plateau – is something special. Something strange, marvelous, full of wonders. As far as I know there is no other region on earth much like it, or even remotely like it. Nowhere else have we had this lucky combination of vast sedimentary rock […]
Edward Abbey
Posted inOctober 2, 1981: Encounters with Henry on Utah's Green River
Encounters with Henry on Utah’s Green River
Excerpts from Edward Abbey’s introduction to a new edition of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 19, 1978: Montanans face turmoil next election
God bless America. Let’s save some of it.
My ideas on “something different” therefore are offered only because it seems to me that our society is already much too authoritarian, and because certain trends, supported by a blind and misapplied technology, are leading toward an ever more authoritarian, centralized, potentially totalitarian state. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/10.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 22, 1976: Telluride blues, a hatchet job
Telluride blues, a hatchet job
Telluride, Colorado, formerly an honest, decayed little mining town of about 300 souls, is now a bustling whore of a ski resort with a population of 1,500 and many more to come. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 24, 1976: Joy, shipmates, joy!
Joy, shipmates, joy!
Excerpts from a speech delivered by Edward Abbey at a conference in Vail, Colorado. “I say the industrialization of the Rocky Mountain West is not inevitable and that to plan for such a catastrophe is to invite it …” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E