An essayist asks whether the West is the most misunderstood region in the U.S.
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Drilling Chaco: What’s actually at stake
It’s the archaeological landscape beyond New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon that is most threatened.
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Marie’s dictionary
The last fluent speaker of Wukchumni creates a dictionary to document her tribe’s language.
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Chronicling the work of an early Native American artist
Review of ‘In Search of Nampeyo: The Early Years, 1875-1892’ by Steve Elmore.
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Most native tongues of the West are all but lost
A map shows where just over 60 languages remain spoken around the region.
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Photographs of American histories
Sites where gruesome, beautiful and bizarre events have taken place in Western history and film.
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On the edge of Custer’s last stand
Review of “Far As the Eye Can See” by Robert Bausch.
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In the footsteps of a roving genius
Photographs and an interview from high peaks of the Alaska Range.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Depression era photos from your hometown
A new Yale project allows viewers to explore 175,000 images by county.
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Depression era photos from your hometown
A new Yale project allows viewers to explore 175,000 images by county.
Posted inMarch 7, 2011: High Tension
Regaining identity through restoration
Charles Wilkinson’s new book describes how a tribe “terminated” by the federal government fought to regain its identity.
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The single women who homesteaded the West
The women who settled in the Old West defy stereotypes.
Posted inFebruary 20, 1995: No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry
1995: Cecil Andrus knew how to take a stand
Cecil Andrus tells the story about how, as a young logger in Orofino, Idaho, he would skid logs down streambeds because it was the easiest way to move them. Skidding, for those who don’t know the rough-and-ready truths about logging, rips up the land and streams. “Those of us in logging in those good old […]