Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
People & Places
Posted inOctober 31, 2016: A Monumental Divide
A national monument is a heavy-handed solution for Bears Ears
More protection for these lands would mean more regulation and less freedom.
Posted inOctober 31, 2016: A Monumental Divide
How to shear a sheep — and why
On the satisfaction of back-breaking labor.
Posted inOctober 31, 2016: A Monumental Divide
The bid for Bears Ears
The tribal push for a Bears Ears monument raises thorny questions of homeland and sovereignty.
Posted inArticles
How independent libraries are transforming some New Mexico towns
In Rio Arriba County, a community fix for a book deficit.
Posted inOctober 3, 2016: Purple Rain
Why Utah’s Mormons waffle on this year’s GOP candidate
Trump sparks a conflict between morality and political belief.
Posted inOctober 3, 2016: Purple Rain
Inside Wyoming’s rough, tough underground
Boom and bust cycles shape the fates of Wyoming’s young people.
Posted inOctober 3, 2016: Purple Rain
See these photos of ‘the new settlers’
In the 1960s, a counterculture revolution brought a new wave of migration Westward.
Posted inOctober 3, 2016: Purple Rain
Remembering a ‘free man’ who died at the Grand Canyon
A transient outdoorsman, he only wanted to be in the mountains or down some canyon.
Posted inOctober 3, 2016: Purple Rain
Meet Denise Juneau, who hopes to be the first Native American woman in Congress
Indian Country votes will help determine whether this seat flips to blue.
Posted inArticles
Burner of Land Management
It takes year-round planning to host 70,000 people in one of the planet’s harshest environments.
Posted inSeptember 19, 2016: Frontera Incognita
High Country News founder, Tom Bell, passes
A Wyoming rancher and self-proclaimed maverick, Bell led a lifelong conservation effort.
Posted inSeptember 19, 2016: Frontera Incognita
A mother’s flight into the desert
An excerpt from Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me.
Posted inSeptember 19, 2016: Frontera Incognita
On borders, north and south
How the natural world challenges human notions of division.
Posted inSeptember 19, 2016: Frontera Incognita
Sometimes a place
A family’s journey from the San Luis Valley to Denver, in illustrations.
Posted inSeptember 19, 2016: Frontera Incognita
The afterlife of cotton
Through the present and past of a border town, on the trail of literary legend José Revueltas.
Posted inSeptember 19, 2016: Frontera Incognita
The disappearing art of Southwestern cemeteries
A review of En Recuerdo de, a look at the afterlife of Mexican cemeteries in the West.
Posted inSeptember 19, 2016: Frontera Incognita
The secrets of Los Gatos Canyon
Along the border, identity and memory.