One: Nevada. A few miles from the California line, heading into the setting sun, I have to put my hand up to shade my eyes, so bright is the starflash on the windshield. Signs have warned, in wordless silhouette, of horses on the highway, and in fact I have seen two small herds of wild […]
Peter Shelton
Posted inWotr
The monastery of pure landscape
Years ago, I overheard some German motorists talking in the visitor center in Moab: “Yah, zis is ze first time ve are traveling in pure landscape!” Because I’d been to Germany as a high school student, I knew what they meant — no manicured fields and forests, few fences, human settlements few and far between, […]
Posted inMarch 31, 2008: My Crazy Brother
The legacy of the 10th Mountain men
South of Vail, Colo., in a mountain meadow framed by 14,000-foot peaks, deep snow hides the ruined foundations of Camp Hale. In the winters of 1943 and 1944, 15,000 men equipped with rifles and skis swarmed the surrounding terrain, training for alpine combat in the Army’s 10th Mountain Division. When I drove by in February, […]
Posted inAugust 23, 1993: Timber theft: Logging firms rob a lax agency
Convenience is making life unlivable
A new City Market could change Ridgway, Colo. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Convenience is making life unlivable.
Posted inDecember 8, 1986: With isolation and great vats of time
Not with bangs or whimpers, but with luxuries
“Perfect skipping stones” sold in the Early Winters catalogue provide the strongest single piece of evidence yet that Western civilization is collapsing on itself like a dwarf star. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/18.23/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E