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  • Life as a fire lookout

    Life as a fire lookout

    It's a long way from Lower Manhattan to a remote fire lookout's perch in New Mexico.

    by Philip Connors, Oct 21, 2011
  • The sky is a crowded attic

    The sky is a crowded attic

    Novelist Andrew Sean Greer talks about how the West’s vast landscapes transformed his life and his fiction.

    by Jeremy N. Smith, Sep 16, 2009
  • The dictionary reader

    The dictionary reader

    What kind of person spends the whole summer stuck inside a cabin reading the dictionary?

    by Ana Maria Spagna, Aug 21, 2009

  • A life of words and wilderness

    Rick Bass’ memoir, Why I Came West, describes how his 20-year struggle to save Montana’s Yaak Valley held him hostage, preventing him from concentrating on writing the short fiction that he loves.

    by Eric Peterson, Apr 14, 2008

  • Mystery in Montana

    Deirdre McNamer’s new novel, Red Rover, beautifully captures the unromantic realism of Montana’s small towns.

    by Bruce Barcott, Oct 29, 2007

  • No frigate like a book

    This special issue focuses on books and essays that help us understand the complex, chaotic West.

    by Jodi Peterson, Oct 29, 2007

  • John Nichols and his 19th miracle

    Writer John Nichols is still fighting the good fight in Taos, N.M.

    by Erin Halcomb, Jun 11, 2007

  • Longing for a buried past

    Rick Bass’ new short story collection, The Lives of Rocks, proves that his fierce environmental activism has not diminished the intensity of his storytelling genius

    by Emma Brown, May 28, 2007

  • Dear friends

    Visitors; Las Vegas writer and historian Hal Rothman dies; farewell to Dolores LaChapelle and Ed LaChapelle

    by Jodi Peterson and Jonathan Thompson, Mar 19, 2007

  • A geography of the imagination

    In Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, 45 diverse writers define unusual geographical terms used across the country.

    by Eliza Murphy, Mar 05, 2007
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