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  • The charm of a dying place

    A South Dakota native ponders the lure of the Dying Plains

  • You can’t hurry love in the rural West

    The writer says you can’t hurry love in the rural West

  • I can’t figure out what gays have to do with my marriage

    The writer Roberts tries to figure out what gays have to do with his marriage

  • For Western myths, see newcomers on horseback

    The writer celebrates the interaction of Western myths and newcomers to the region

  • The Devil’s Highway was a road to God’s Country

    Dave Frey calls old Route 666 a road to God’s Country.

  • When good tax-evaders go bad

    In "Lone Patriot: The Short Career of an American Militiaman," Jane Kramer profiles wannabe-Patriot John Pitner, who was commander in chief of the Washington State Militia until his group began to unravel and the FBI arrested him.

  • Ranching the changing times

    Bad economic times lead the writer to turn his ranching career into a "sell-out" occupation: the ranch-recreation business.

  • The Old West went that-a-way

    Encouraged by an East Coast editor, the writer gives her outspoken opinion of the "Real West," and the editor turns it down.

  • Property rights reined in

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled April 23 that property owners at Lake Tahoe are not entitled to compensation for a moratorium in 1981 on new building that was created to protect Lake Tahoe's blue waters from erosion runoff.

  • 'Re-inhabitation' revisited

    The environmental and community challenges brought to Washington's Olympic Peninsula by runaway sprawl and development have some 're-inhabiting locals' almost nostalgic for the clear-cut timber companies of 30 years ago.

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