High Country News March 15, 2010
Feature
Mobile Nation
Every winter in Quartzsite, Ariz., tens of thousands of RVers form an impromptu community in the desert.
Editor's Note
When you carry your home with you, when are you home?
The thousands of RVers who gather in Quartzsite, Ariz., every winter create in an impromptu community that might as well be in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Dear Friends
See you in Spring
Skipped issue; Paonia's "Miracle of the Market"; Sam Hamilton's obituary
Conversation
Cutting away from the pack
High Country News interviews Keith Allred, who is running for governor as a Democrat in ultra-Republican Idaho.
Book Reviews
Untold tales of the American frontier
The second edition of John Ravage's book, Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier, illuminates the roles blacks played in settling the West.
Pulp friction
Philip Caputo's seventh novel, Crossers, amounts to little more than the literary equivalent of a popcorn flick.
Essays
East to the West
A writer contemplates where the West begins, both in the landscape and in his life.
Letters
Nano-scale activism
Will the wolf survive?
'Tyranny of the turbine'
More DNA debunking
War on people
How it Works
Inspired by nature
Three pioneering Western scientists and inventors use biomimicry to tackle environmental problems.
Evidence
Ewe-haul
Over the last century, Wyoming has transplanted hundreds of bighorn sheep, both in-state and out, to buoy struggling herds.
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