Results for keyword: Western Culture
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A life of brutal grace
The Boy Who Invented Skiing" is the memoir of Swain Wolfe, who spent his boyhood in a Colorado Springs tuberculosis sanatorium in the '30s
by Mary Sojourner, Sep 04, 2006 -
Our lungs, ourselves: Smoking in Wyoming bars
The writer doesn't want a smoking ban affecting the homey bars that dot rural and remote Wyoming
by Julianne Couch, Aug 21, 2006 -
We need to talk about why some minorities lag behind
The writer says he's not being racist when he insists on talking about minority cultures and why they lag behind
by Richard D. Lamm, Aug 21, 2006 -
Relishing those idiosyncratic Western triumphs
The writer likes standing out in rural Montana in the most innocuous ways
by John Clayton, Aug 14, 2006 -
'There was just some hard hittin' going on'
Matt Jenkins visits the annual Combine Demolition Derby in the tiny farming town of Lind, Wash.
by Matt Jenkins, Aug 07, 2006 -
The merry — and meditative — farmer
In Blithe Tomato, Mike Madison writes engagingly about working the land on a small farm in California’s Central Valley
by Laura Paskus, Jul 24, 2006 -
Down on the ground looking for culture
The writer gets down on the ground as he looks for community culture
by George Sibley, Jun 12, 2006 -
It ain't easy getting old
In No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy discards his bitter nostalgia to tell a story set along the border in the 1980s
by Laura Paskus, May 15, 2006 -
Mute, riven, blessed
All over the West, white roadside crosses and spontaneous, humble shrines mark the holy sites where the souls of human beings have left this world
by Brian Doyle, Apr 17, 2006 -
Resurrecting J. Thomas
The crumbling remains of a man named J. Thomas have a story to tell about life and death in the northern Colorado in the 1870s
by Laura Pritchett, Mar 20, 2006






