Timothy Egan's Western odyssey — High Country News

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Charles Bowden on The War Next Door | On the U.S.-Mexico border, the corrupt and futile ...
It's the population, stupid? | Some Westerners want to blame our environmental wo...
The trouble with monuments | An internally conflicted rant on Obama's "secret l...
Good night, sweet trees | A scientist sees a Shakespearean tragedy unfold in...
No ESA for sage grouse | Feds say iconic bird needs protection, but won't g...

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Thank you, Utah, for leading the way | Utah's Legislature has brilliant plans to cut educ...
Skeletons in the closet | When the media reported that Everett Ruess' bones ...
Mobile Nation | Every winter in Quartzsite, Ariz., tens of thousan...
Water fallout | A nuclear power plant proposed for Green River, Ut...

Related: Dust in the wind In his new book, The Worst Hard Time, Tim Egan interviews survivors to tell the story of the great American Dust Bowl on the southern Great Plains in the 1930s; Mobile Nation Every winter in Quartzsite, Ariz., tens of thousands of RVers form an impromptu community in the desert.; The Crusade Continues A young couple is tapped to fill a 'big set of Vibrams'; Who's grabbin' who? Utah moves to take federally protected lands for development.; Republicans face an uncertain battle for governor Democratic Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's decision to run for governor of Colorado may throw a spanner into Republican plans to re-take the West.

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