High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 8. The genesis of the West http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.1/the-genesis-of-the-west Douglas Brinkley's magisterial The Wilderness Warrior describes how Teddy Roosevelt created the American West we love today. No publisher Ed Marston David Brinkley American presidents The Wilderness Warrior Theodore Roosevelt American West environmental movement biography history 2010-02-09T21:28:47Z News Article Living with the ghosts of the Indian Wars http://www.hcn.org/issues/315/16100 Montana’s "Custer Country" is a region haunted by the ghosts of the Indian Wars, where towns are still named for the so-called "heroes’ responsible for massacres such as Wounded Knee No publisher Mary Zeiss Stange Western History Place names American West George Armstrong Custer Indian Wars Native Americans Wounded Knee Little Big Horn Philip Sheridan George Crook Alfred Terry James Forsyth Seventh Cavalry Oglala Lakota racism genocide massacres Sitting Bull Geron 2010-02-05T08:56:54Z News Article A natural and cultural history of the Rocky Mountains http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16023 Gary Ferguson explores the history and culture of the backbone of the West in The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind No publisher Stephen J. Lyons Western Culture Gary Ferguson The Great Divide Rocky Mountains Western history American West Kit Carson Crested Butte American Indians Native Americans trappers hunters pioneers baby boomers hippies bioregionalism Manifest Destiny mountain towns ski reso 2010-02-05T08:56:28Z News Article Of Chiles, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks: Notes on the American West http://www.hcn.org/issues/292/15311 Of Chiles, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks: Notes on the American West is a fine collection of Frederick Turner’s deft essays on the region No publisher Staff Human Beings And Nature Essays American West nature writing Georgia O’Keeffe cock fights cowboys 2010-02-05T09:23:35Z News Article It's the West's turn to call the shots http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15241 The neglected, underestimated Interior West might plant the seeds of change for the current American empire No publisher Ed Marston American West Interior West politics public lands federal land agencies George Washington Bill Richardson Arnold Schwarzenegger Harry Reid energy independence 2010-02-05T09:22:59Z News Article What’s it like to live in the West? http://www.hcn.org/issues/355/17264 Brian Doyle answers the question “What’s it like to live in the West?” with exuberant poetry. No publisher Brian Doyle cottonwood trees nature poetry Brian Doyle Western landscape American West 2010-08-25T22:31:10Z News Article In Large and Sunlit Land http://www.hcn.org/issues/357/17315 Peter Chilson ponders the parallel fates of two lovely and ravaged lands: The Southwest desert in America and the West Coast of Africa. No publisher Peter Chilson Peter Chilson American West Henry Morton Stanley Tuareg Sahara West Africa Navajo 2010-08-11T22:55:53Z News Article The art of an alien landscape http://www.hcn.org/issues/336/16739 In Westernness: A Meditation, poet and scholar Alan Williamson examines what it means to live in the West through the eyes of the region’s writers and artists No publisher Margaret Foley Human Beings and Nature painters poets Georgia O’Keeffe Willa Cather Leslie Marmon Silko novelists Westerness: A Meditation American literary tradition Alan Williamson writers Western American West artists landscape nonfiction 2010-09-09T20:29:08Z News Article