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  • Journey of Rediscovery: The living, breathing natives who made Lewis and Clark

    For all the heroism of their achievement, Lewis and Clark would not have survived without the help of the many Indian peoples they encountered across the West

  • Commemorate or celebrate?

    In this issue of High Country News, four essayists take a thoughtful look at the Lewis and Clark expedition and its impacts – past and present — on Indian America

  • The Last Open Range

    Wyoming’s Green Mountain Common Allotment is one of the West’s last big, wide-open landscapes – but these days, ranchers, environmentalists, history buffs and the BLM are arguing over whether it’s time to start putting up fences

  • Whose thousand words?

    Print the Legend: Photography and the American West by Martha Sandweiss takes a hard and thoughtful look at the historical uses of photography in the West

  • A tale of tough women walks out of the past

    In Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, author Linda Lawrence Hunt celebrates a Norwegian immigrant’s 1896 journey across America in an attempt to save her family homestead

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  4. "A deeply troubled idea from the start" | Valles Caldera's experiment in public lands manage...
  5. Frack 2, Scene 1 | New York City fights drilling in its watershed, an...
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  2. Socialism and the West | Despite our reflexive fear of the word "socialism,...
  3. The Lost Art of Listening | Can the Arapaho language be saved from extinction?...
  4. Return of the pod man | Arizona farmer Mark Moody raises mesquite trees fo...
  5. Is the BLM practicing unsafe CX? | The Bureau of Land Management used a large number ...

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