High Country News

Photojournalist Lisa Hamilton explores rural California

For her project, Real Rural, photojournalist Lisa Hamilton traveled throughout California, interviewing and photographing scores of rural people.

by Danielle Venton , Feb 19, 2012
A second chance at love: A review of Liberty Lanes

Liberty Lanes, Robin Troy's second novel, tracks the lives of a group of senior citizens in a small Montana town.

by Phyllis Barber, Jan 22, 2012
Mapping the Hi-Line: A review of Honyocker Dreams

Writer David Mogen sets out to understand his childhood and his rural ancestors, who lived along Montana’s Hi-Line, just below the Canadian border.

by Andrea Clark Mason, Oct 30, 2011
Bootstrapping in Roundup

When the Musselshell River flooded Roundup, Mont., it did damage to everything but the townsfolk's indomitable spirit.

by Wendy Beye, Aug 04, 2011
The painful beauty of love

Melanie Rae Thon's short stories, gathered in her collection In This Light, paint a desolate and tender picture of the West.

by Kathleen Yale, May 15, 2011
The sign maker

The wooden signs Phil Garfoot made still offer directions to his friends, even after his death.

by Ana Maria Spagna, Apr 21, 2011
Reasons to persevere

In his novel, Blind Your Ponies, Stanley Gordon West looks into the heart of a fictional small town in Montana.

by Karen Rigby, Feb 06, 2011
Poetry in motion

That odd-looking woman on the sidewalk ahead of you is not just talking to herself; she's trying -- loudly -- to memorize a poem.

by Diane Sylvain, Dec 05, 2010
Slipping into the holidays

This issue’s cover essay on New Mexico’s gas fields – and our publisher’s adventures during a recent snowstorm in Paonia – reveal the complex links that bind Westerners together for better or worse

by Paul Larmer, Dec 25, 2006
Summer blizzard

Wonderful things are everywhere -- but you have to pay attention in order to see them.

by John Calderazzo, Aug 05, 2010