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  • Hope and redemption

    Hope and redemption

    The story of the West is a story of the quest for redemption - not just for individuals, but for an entire landscape.

    by Jodi Peterson , Sep 19, 2011

  • Fall books, from steampunk to conservation science

    There's a good harvest of new books by Western writers.

    by Jodi Peterson, Sep 13, 2010
  • On the wing

    On the wing

    This special "books and essays" issue circles around the theme of migration.

    by Jodi Peterson, Sep 13, 2010

  • "To feel at home, stay at home."

    This essays and book reviews in this special issue of High Country News revolve around the question: What does it mean to be at home in the West?

    by Jodi Peterson, Sep 14, 2009
  • The bizarre intersection of humanity and nature

    The bizarre intersection of humanity and nature

    The short stories in Laura Chester’s Rancho Weirdo revolve around the unexpected interactions of middle-class people with nature.

    by Melissa Hart, May 26, 2009

  • Wet words

    Brian Doyle recommends the best reads about the Pacific Northwest, with particular emphasis on his home state, Oregon.

    by Brian Doyle, Oct 29, 2007

  • Thomas McGuane’s lonely freaks

    The powerful short stories in Thomas McGuane’s Gallatin Canyon prove him to be the New West’s answer to Flannery O’Connor.

    by Annie Dawid, Apr 02, 2007

  • Hits and missives from Cactus Ed

    In Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast, David Petersen assembles some of the correspondence of Western writer Edward Abbey into an eminently readable but ultimately unenlightening collection.

    by Brian Kevin, Sep 18, 2006

  • The Colorado Plateau II: Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Research

    The Colorado Plateau II is a kaleidoscopic anthology of scientists’ thoughts on the history, biology and geology of the vast Colorado Plateau

    by Staff, Feb 06, 2006

  • Urban planning — with a wild touch

    Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers and Citizens and Nature-Friendly Communties are two new handbooks on innovative land-use planning and habitat protection

    by Ray Ring, Feb 06, 2006
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