High Country News

Odes to an urban mountain range

Two recent guidebooks – Mike Coltrin’s Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide and The Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains by Robert Julyan and Mary Stuever – are excellent guides to the trails and histories of the mountains outside Albuquerque

by Laura Paskus, Oct 31, 2005
Following the Oregon Trail, digitally and on foot

Following a childhood fascination with the computer game Oregon Trail, a young archaeologist meets the real thing during a rugged, exhausting Wyoming summer.

by Laura Herrington Watson, Feb 15, 2012
Heard Around the West

Biodiesel pirates; dinosaur bones for sale; archaeological developments; hot weather and cool bankrobbers; what to do with a big dead moose.

by Betsy Marston, Jun 09, 2008
In pothunter country, a small effort at healing

A Utah archaeological non-profit tries to take the edge off the locals-versus-outsiders debate.

by Beth Kampschror, Jul 28, 2009
Teetering on the Edge of the Cedars

The Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum in Blanding, Utah, fights for its life as the state cuts funding.

by Adam Roy, Mar 20, 2011
Following the Old Spanish Trail across the Southwest

Archaeologist Jack Pfertsh looks for marks on the landscape and artifact fragments to retrace the historic route near Delta, Colo.

by Jeremy Miller, Apr 05, 2012
Earth Notes

Earth Notes, edited by Peter Friederici, is a tasty selection of tidbits about the Southwest’s canyon country

by Staff, Dec 12, 2005
The Pictograph Murders

The Pictograph Murders by P.G. Karamesines, combines archaeology, witchcraft and murder in a chilling first novel set in Utah

by Staff, Dec 26, 2005
Ancient archaeological secret is revealed

Archaeologists are thrilled about the state of Utah’s acquisition of Waldo Wilcox’s Range Creek Canyon ranch, site of a thousand-year-old Frement Indian settlement

by Dan Wilcock, Aug 30, 2004
Saving Maidu culture, one seedling at a time

Lorena Gorbet, a Mountain Maidu Indian, has dedicated her life to saving her tribal culture through forest management in the Feather River area of Northern California

by Jane Braxton Little, Apr 04, 2005