High Country News

Guns are different for women in the West

As a woman, I believe I am safer with a gun in the West.

by Christina Nealson, Jan 22, 2013
How Arizona's culture helped shape the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords

If you want to understand why Jared Lee Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and 18 others at a Tucson Safeway in 2011, look to Arizona’s soulless culture and vitriolic politics.

by Tom Zoellner, Feb 26, 2012
The trouble with guns

Maybe it's true that guns don't kill people, but people using guns can sure do damage.

by Diane Sylvain, Jan 18, 2011
Gunning with the in-laws

Jonathan Thompson learns to love guns – and to fear them even more than he did before.

by Jonathan Thompson, Sep 03, 2007
Guns -- and none

A woman who grew up with guns goes on to a life without them.

by Diane Halsted, Jun 22, 2010
The kindness of hunters

After a lifetime of despising and fearing guns, a woman is blindsided by the everyday kindness shown by two hunters.

by Melissa Hart, Nov 08, 2009
History viewed through gunsights

Hal Herring traces the history of the American West through its guns and the people who used them in Famous Firearms of the Old West.

by Ray Ring, Mar 16, 2009
Heard around the West

San Francisco puts dog poop to work; stupid motorists’ tricks; warning to Mr. Cheney; Vogue tackles global warming; Alaska retools its image

by Betsy Marston, Mar 20, 2006
Blood spills over a $14 camping fee

In the wake of a confrontation over a camping fee that ended in a tourist’s death, a former park ranger remembers a frightening incident from his own career

by Jim Stiles, Oct 17, 2005
Hunting: It’s not about the gun

In the presidential election this fall, sportsmen are likely to be split between those who vote for wildlife, and those who vote for the gun

by Tom Reed, Oct 11, 2004