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  • Gold mining proposed in historic South Passarea

    A Canadian mining company, the Fremont Gold Corporation, plans to dig 200 test pits for a possible mining operation five miles from the South Pass National Historic Landmark in Wyoming, where wagon trains once traveled

    by Brodie Farquhar, May 16, 2005

  • Resurrecting J. Thomas

    The crumbling remains of a man named J. Thomas have a story to tell about life and death in the northern Colorado in the 1870s

    by Laura Pritchett, Mar 20, 2006

  • His photographs trace the passage of time

    Photographer Mark Klett has made an art of rephotographing Western landscapes first documented about 100 years ago

    by Renee Guillory, Sep 30, 2010

  • Why Native Americans look at Lewis and Clark with different eyes

    The writer looks at Lewis and Clark’s explorations 200 years ago through the eyes of Native Americans

    by Paul VanDevelder, Dec 27, 2004

  • Living with the ghosts of the Indian Wars

    Montana’s "Custer Country" is a region haunted by the ghosts of the Indian Wars, where towns are still named for the so-called "heroes’ responsible for massacres such as Wounded Knee

    by Mary Zeiss Stange, Feb 06, 2006

  • Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936

    In Maverick Autobiographies, Cathryn Halverson rediscovers three fascinating Western women writers: Mary MacLane, Opal Whiteley and Juanita Harrison

    by Staff, Sep 05, 2005

  • A tasty history of the Southwest

    In Gardens of New Spain, William W. Dunmire tells the story of how Mediterranean plants and foods came to North America and changed the way its inhabitants eat

    by Matt Jenkins, Jun 27, 2005

  • Lewis and Clark: Just another cog in the wheel of history

    Lewis and Clark did not visit an unchanging, pristine West, but an evolving landscape that had been shaped by Indian peoples for thousands of years

    by Colin G. Calloway, Aug 16, 2004

  • Commemorate or celebrate?

    In this issue of High Country News, four essayists take a thoughtful look at the Lewis and Clark expedition and its impacts – past and present — on Indian America

    by Paul Larmer, Aug 16, 2004

  • Resurrected memories of a prison camp

    "Snow Country Memories: Interned in North Dakota," a new exhibit at the North Dakota Museum of Art, brings to life the World War II-era Fort Lincoln Internment Camp and the people who lived there, like poet Itaru Ina

    by Dustin Solberg, Mar 01, 2004
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