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  • "Shoot locally"

    First annual Paonia Film Festival; Pronghorn Passage; Craig Childs wins Desert Writers Award; correction.

    by Jodi Peterson , May 01, 2011

  • A chance for redemption

    The lead essays in this issue find both darkness and hope in the times we live in, and in the reminder that all civilizations – including our own – eventually crumble and fall

    by Greg Hanscom, Jun 21, 2004

  • A very brief conversation with a Jet Fighter

    A long solitary hike through an empty, pristine desert is interrupted by a close encounter with an F-16 fighter plane

    by Craig Childs, May 01, 2006
  • Craig Childs is HCN's latest contributing editor

    Craig Childs is HCN's latest contributing editor

    Craig Childs becomes a contributing editor; High Country News has telephone troubles; former interns Dave Frey and Emilene Ostlind get new jobs; and corrections.

    by Jodi Peterson, Feb 19, 2012
  • Crown of horns

    Crown of horns

    Unexpected encounters with an injured bull elk and a couple of teenage boys lead a writer to consider the meaning of fatherhood.

    by Craig Childs , Mar 02, 2009

  • Dry to the bone

    Despite a relatively snowy winter here in western Colorado, the season itself seems to have shrunk, with spring arriving weeks earlier than it once did in a trend with ominous consequences for the desert Southwest, particularly Phoenix.

    by Paul Larmer, Apr 16, 2007

  • Exodus

    The abandonment of the American Southwest by the Anasazi 700 years ago – and the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina today – show that all civilizations are fragile, complex, and ultimately at the mercy of the climate

    by Greg Hanscom, Oct 03, 2005

  • Head games in the hot, hot desert

    In The Way Out, Craig Childs tells the true story of how he and a friend explored a Utah desert and, at the same time, journeyed through their own memories

    by Lee Ross, Jul 25, 2005

  • Impressions of Pueblo prehistory

    Craig Childs’ new book House of Rain is less an in-depth look at Southwestern archaeology than one person’s attempt to appreciate a part of the world

    by Dave Phillips, Jun 11, 2007

  • Leave it alone

    Archaeology is, or at least ought to be, about more than just picking up artifacts to gather dust on the shelves of crowded museum storerooms.

    by Jonathan Thompson, Apr 28, 2008
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