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"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
Credo: The People’s West

Photographer Stephen Trimble offers suggestions for how citizens and communities can reinvent their relationship with the Western landscape.

by Stephen Trimble, Jun 23, 2008
Bury it standing

When his old canoe shows signs of aging, Alan Kesselheim decides to bury it upright in his yard, a contemporary totem pole.

by Alan Kesselheim, Nov 12, 2007
The aroma of Tacoma

Karen Mockler likes the West’s grittier towns – the ones that aren’t remotely cool, the ones with a certain funk

by Karen Mockler, Jul 23, 2007
When the Joneses go solar

As solar power becomes more popular, planners wrestle with builders over aesthetics

by Isabelle Groc, Jul 23, 2007
When the going gets tough, the tough collaborate

Sometimes it seems that only the impact of a severe drought can get Westerners to work together on water issues

by Paul Larmer, May 14, 2007
Down but not out in Missoula, Montana

Kathryn Socie works two jobs and still can’t afford to buy a house in Missoula, but she believes that her life in Montana is well worth the sacrifice it takes.

by Kathryn Socie, Mar 26, 2007
Picture a town that celebrates its old businesses

Linda Hasselstrom muses sadly over the closing of a 118-year-old drugstore in downtown Cheyenne, Wyo.

by Linda Hasselstrom, Mar 19, 2007
Slipping into the holidays

This issue’s cover essay on New Mexico’s gas fields – and our publisher’s adventures during a recent snowstorm in Paonia – reveal the complex links that bind Westerners together for better or worse

by Paul Larmer, Dec 25, 2006
Pueblo water battle nears its end

If New Mexico’s 40-year-old Aamodt case is settled, it will end centuries of wrangling over water use, but not everybody is happy with how it’s ending

by Eric Mack, Oct 30, 2006

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"To feel at home, stay at home."

Credo: The People’s West

Bury it standing

The aroma of Tacoma

When the Joneses go solar

When the going gets tough, the tough collaborate

Down but not out in Missoula, Montana

Picture a town that celebrates its old businesses

Slipping into the holidays

Pueblo water battle nears its end

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