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  • Untold tales of the American frontier

    Untold tales of the American frontier

    The second edition of John Ravage's book, Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier, illuminates the roles blacks played in settling the West.

  • Cutting away from the pack

    Cutting away from the pack

    High Country News interviews Keith Allred, who is running for governor as a Democrat in ultra-Republican Idaho.

  • Quartzsite or Bust

    Quartzsite or Bust

    A colorful look at life in Quartzsite, which becomes an RV mecca every winter.

  • When you carry your home with you, when are you home?

    When you carry your home with you, when are you home?

    The thousands of RVers who gather in Quartzsite, Ariz., every winter create in an impromptu community that might as well be in a Wal-Mart parking lot.

  • Mobile Nation

    Mobile Nation

    Every winter in Quartzsite, Ariz., tens of thousands of RVers form an impromptu community in the desert.

  • Ewe-haul

    Ewe-haul

    Over the last century, Wyoming has transplanted hundreds of bighorn sheep, both in-state and out, to buoy struggling herds.

  • See you in Spring

    See you in Spring

    Skipped issue; Paonia's "Miracle of the Market"; Sam Hamilton's obituary

  • Pulp friction

    Philip Caputo's seventh novel, Crossers, amounts to little more than the literary equivalent of a popcorn flick.

  • Inspired by nature

    Inspired by nature

    Three pioneering Western scientists and inventors use biomimicry to tackle environmental problems. Subscribers only

  • When a scientist becomes an activist

    When a scientist becomes an activist

    In his first book, Storms of My Grandchildren, NASA climate scientist James Hansen explains the truth of climate change and reveals why he has risked his career to bring the issue to light.

  • East to the West

    East to the West

    A writer contemplates where the West begins, both in the landscape and in his life.

  • Audio: High Country Views, episode 1

    Audio: High Country Views, episode 1

    Jonathan Thompson and Cally Carswell talk wind and coal.

  • Too many homes on the range

    Too many homes on the range

    Custer County, Colo., used to be the third-fastest-growing county in the United States, but no longer. Subscribers only

  • Reefer politics

    Reefer politics

    The West leads the way on medical marijuana.

  • Failed State

    Failed State

    Photojournalist Julian Cardona on living and working in Mexico's war zone.

  • When school budgets get cut to the bone, what then?

    When school budgets get cut to the bone, what then?

    The budget crunch faced by schools in Grand County, Utah, poses a terrible threat to the region's young people. Subscribers only

  • The smoke police

    The smoke police

    Simon Winer patrols the San Francisco Bay Area, sniffing out violators when poor air quality requires a ban on wood-smoke fires.

  • Republicans face an uncertain battle for governor

    Republicans face an uncertain battle for governor

    Democratic Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's decision to run for governor of Colorado may throw a spanner into Republican plans to re-take the West. Subscribers only

  • The incredible journey

    A toilet was among the artifacts the Trash Track project followed across the country from original owner to final destination in a landfill.

  • It's the population, stupid?

    It's the population, stupid?

    Some Westerners want to blame our environmental woes on overpopulation, but the problem is not that simple.

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