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  • Essays The Eastern Frontier

    The Eastern Frontier

    New York City is really the West, buried under time's wrapping.

  • Writers on the Range Stopping by apples in the land of condos

    Stopping by apples in the land of condos

    The small courtesies of gleaning urban fruit.

  • Feature The Lost Art of Listening

    The Lost Art of Listening

    Can the Arapaho language be saved from extinction?

  • Writers on the Range Mystery unsolved -- and that's a good thing

    Mystery unsolved -- and that's a good thing

    The recent discovery that bones found in the Southwest did not belong to the long-lost poet-wanderer Everett Ruess keeps one more evocative Western mystery alive.

  • Uncommon Westerners Return of the pod man

    Return of the pod man

    Arizona farmer Mark Moody raises mesquite trees for food and furniture.

  • Multimedia The mesquite wrangler

    The mesquite wrangler

    Arizona farmer gives a neglected desert crop new life

  • Current Gone in 60 seconds

    Gone in 60 seconds

    Despite auctioneer Peter Stremmel's enthusiasm, the Western artwork sold at this year's Coeur d'Alene Art Auction in Reno didn't bring very high prices. Subscribers only

  • Dear Friends

    How big should we be?

    The September board meeting raised questions about how big HCN should be; artists and activists visit us.

  • Essays The kindness of hunters

    The kindness of hunters

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

  • Book Reviews 'Yes' to desire and an end to fear

    'Yes' to desire and an end to fear

    Charles Bowden's new book, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing, reiterates the bad news of today but declares that times are changing.

  • Book Reviews For farmers, small is beautiful

    For farmers, small is beautiful

    In Deeply Rooted, Lisa M. Hamilton introduces the reader to three small farmers who are bucking the trend toward industrial agribusiness.

  • Sidebar

    Mesquite Pancake Recipe

  • Writers on the Range On the road in lonely Wyoming

    On the road in lonely Wyoming

    A late-night encounter with a cop on a lonely Wyoming highway is a quintessentially Western experience.

  • Editor's Note How the West made cheeseburgers cheap

    How the West made cheeseburgers cheap

    Our cheap food has a high price tag, especially for workers on the West’s big dairy farms.

  • Writers on the Range Polygamy tours? Why not?

    Polygamy tours? Why not?

    For $69, two former "polygs" will guide you through fundamentalist towns on the Utah border. Subscribers only

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