Uncommon Westerners
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Montana loses an environmental leader
Montana State Rep. Ben Cohen, environmentalist, garbageman, actor and outdoorsman, is mourned in Whitefish, Mont.
by George Ochenski, Feb 28, 2000 -
Hazel Wolf: She made it
Activist and inspiration Hazel Wolf dies at 101.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Feb 14, 2000 -
All you can eat at Pueblito del Paiz
In the western Colorado town of Olathe, Ted Medina's Pueblito del Paiz serves as boarding house, dining hall and occasionally tense meeting ground for the Mexican and Indian workers who labor in the area's farm fields.
by Lisa Jones, Dec 20, 1999 -
Not your average beauty queen
A profile of 24-year-old Rachel Benally shows a vibrant young woman whose family life is in bright contrast to the often-grim statistics about youth problems in the Navajo Reservation.
by Lisa Jones, Jan 31, 2000 -
A man to match our mountains
Legendary mountaineer and outdoor educator Paul Petzoldt, who founded the National Outdoor Leadership Training School (NOLS) and the Wilderness Education Association, has died at the age of 91.
by Ali Macalady And Tom Reed, Oct 25, 1999 -
Montana tribes bid their leader farewell
Michael T. "Mickey" Pablo, the recently deceased leader of Montana's seven Indian nations, is remembered as a fearless warrior in defense of his people, their land and treaty rights.
by George Ochenski, Aug 30, 1999 -
Uphill for these Idahoans
HCN readers Gene Bray and Irene Wright of Meridian, Idaho, are profiled.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Dec 21, 1998 -
Wise words from a veteran activist
A reader profile of 100-year-old Hazel Wolf, a lifelong activist and the star of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness conference.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Nov 09, 1998 -
Dick Randall, a fighter for the West
HCN honors the memory of Wyoming's Dick Randall, who went from killing coyotes for Animal Damage Control to being the strongest critic of that agency.
by Betsy Marston, May 12, 1997 -
An 84-year-old postal veteran
As in Red Lodge, Mont., residents of Livingston also fight to keep their post office downtown, calling it the "lynchpin" of the area.
by Betsy Marston, Dec 23, 1996 -
Keeping the heart in the center of town
Residents of Red Lodge, Mont., fight to keep their post office downtown.
by John Clayton, Dec 23, 1996 -
She works to save the past
Longtime HCN reader Ann Phillips is an educational consultant turned archaeologist.
by Ed Marston, Oct 28, 1996 -
'Seldom Seen Smith' mourns a lost canyon and dead foes
Ken Sleight, an old guard environmentalist and the man behind Edward Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang character, is profiled by Vaughn Roche.
by Vaughn Roche, Oct 18, 1993 -
Can Dan Beard reclaim Reclamation?
A profile of Dan Beard, head of Bureau of Reclamation, shows his role within the Department of the Interior.
by Michael Doyle, Aug 09, 1993 -
A tribute to the man who imagined the West we now seek to build
A writer reflects on the life and death of Wallace Stegner.
by Charles Wilkinson, May 03, 1993 -
To save a Utah canyon, a BLM ranger quits and turns activist
Former BLM ranger Skip Edwards fights to preserve Utah's Westwater Canyon as wilderness at the same time that miner Ron Pene seeks to develop his family's mining claims in the canyon.
by Elizabeth Manning, Oct 16, 1995 -
Inside the glitter
An exhibit of photographs and interviews by Kit Miller takes an indepth look at the people who work in Nevada's casinos.
by Kit Miller, Oct 02, 1995 -
A progressive bureaucrat signs off
Ed Marston interviews HCN reader Daniel Beard, who resigns as Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Sept. 1.
by Ed Marston, Jul 24, 1995 -
A 77-year-old cow watcher from Arizona
HCN reader Pauline Sandholdt of Salome, Arizona, is featured in a profile.
by Lisa Jones, Jun 12, 1995 -
Jim Thrash: A solid man
A eulogy for conservationist Jim Thrash, who died in the Canyon Creek fire.
by Pat Ford, Jul 25, 1994
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