http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/372/17740 Jeffrey Lockwood believes that the modern West could use an infusion of old-fashioned Cowboy Mythology. No publisher Jeffrey Lockwood myths Debra Donahue Western history Samuel Old West Western Cowboys Louis L’Amour Conagher 2010-07-21T16:24:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/272/14683 Republican leaders, now holding the reins in Western politics, are better equipped to meet the challenges faced in the West and in the nation, according to the writer No publisher LaVarr Webb Elections Republican Western politics LaVarr Webb 2010-02-05T09:56:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/272/14677 Disappearing habitat and an increase in hunting quotas based on politics and guesswork are threatening the stability of mountain lion populations in the West. No publisher Jodi Peterson Hunting Threatened And Endangered Other Species mountain lions hunting Western biologists 2010-02-05T09:56:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/272/14675 Our theory that newcomers would, over time, change the political landscape to one more progressive in outlook, needs revision No publisher Paul Larmer Elections Western politics political Democrat Republican Kemmis West 2010-02-05T09:56:53Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/263/14415 Notorious daredevil Evel Knievel is the star of Butte, Montana’s "Evel Knievel Daze," but not everybody in his hometown looks up to him No publisher Tom Zoellner Evel Knievel stuntmen mining towns Spangler Montana Western Butte motorcycle daredevils Spanky Evel Knievel Daze 2010-03-11T20:29:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/348/17068 In the anthology Home Land: Ranching and a West That Works, a wide variety of authors argue that ranching is much more than an outmoded “lifestyle.” No publisher Linda Hasselstrom public lands anthologies ranchers Home Land: Ranching and a West That Works Jeff Lee Laura Western Richard L. Knight essays Pritchett 2010-07-30T18:45:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/370/17693 Ernest Atencio ponders an exceptionally muddy Mud Season in New Mexico, and notes how readily most Westerners forget that we live in an arid landscape. No publisher Ernest Atencio Charles Dana Wilber mud season Climate change Northern New Mexico weather forecasts water supply Manifest Destiny Western climate change drought history 2010-07-26T22:04:13Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/362/17467 Remembering Beverly Allen, an 80-something showgirl; nation’s largest Sitka spruce dies; all religions are weird to non-believers; Ted Turner vs. Nebraska; the benefits of being a resort town; growing pains in the West. No publisher Betsy Marston Fabulous Palm Springs Follies Sitka spruce Kirby Robert population growth Western Ted Turner religious beliefs Sun Valley wildfire 2011-02-14T23:28:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/357/17304 Deirdre McNamer’s new novel, Red Rover, beautifully captures the unromantic realism of Montana’s small towns. No publisher Bruce Barcott novels Red Rover Deirdre McNamer Missoula Montana writers Western fiction 2010-08-11T22:18:19Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16585 Roughneck is a two-year-old monthly devoted to covering the oil and gas industry in Sublette County, Wyoming No publisher Ray Ring Oil & Gas Journal Wyoming Sublette County Journal Roughneck Media Pinedale Roundup Oil and Gas journalism Pinedale methamphetamine use Culture oil and gas industry publishi Western energy industry Communities Rob Shaul reporters Sublette County small-town newspaper online subscriptions 2010-10-14T22:13:41Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16571 The Crested Butte News, a successful independent newspaper in a small Rocky Mountain town, has come full circle and is once again owned by a chain No publisher M. John Fayhee Hickey Media dissatisfaction Melissa Ruch newspaper workers Western underground Crested Butte Chronicle Tiffany Wardrum Crested Butte News journalists Edward Stern Communities job press Than Acuff Crested Butte alternative media independent media Colorado Communities in Transition Culture Jill Claire 2010-10-14T21:59:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16559 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. No publisher Brian Kevin Human beings and nature correspondence life letters letters to the editor journal entries anthologies book reviews writers Postcards from Ed biography authors Confessions of a Barbarian Ed Abbey memoir David Peterson Western 2010-10-26T22:38:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16558 California’s decision to tackle global warming is a sign that the West is finally growing up enough to realize that it is not an "exceptional" place, entirely detached from the rest of the modern world. No publisher Matt Jenkins Legacy of Conquest exceptionali California Legislature Schwarzenegger California Chamber of Commerce climate change Western history Global greenhouse gases Global warming Old West New West Arnold Science Warming Solutions Act State legislatures Patricia Limerick Western 2010-10-26T22:42:33Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/337/16758 The music Roger Clyne writes and performs with his band, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, is inspired by the Arizona desert No publisher Fletcher Jacobs Human Beings and Nature the Replacements P.H. Naffah Mount Shasta performers Southwestern music bands environmentalists Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers culture Honky Tonk Union musicians entertai Western rock singers Arizona desert ‘n’ roll songwriters guitarists 2010-09-01T23:43:22Z News Article 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