High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 14. Let me tell you about a real winter http://www.hcn.org/wotr/let-me-tell-you-about-a-real-winter A Wyoming rancher remembers the winter of 1979 -- what it was like tending cattle at 52 below zero. No publisher Mary Flitner horses winter Ranchers cattle grazing cold temperatures cowboys 2011-02-15T22:11:22Z News Article Room for everyone http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.21/room-for-everyone A "hodgepodge of humanity" visits Mojave desert hot springs -- and there's room enough for all. No publisher Brad Monsma horses humor Mojave Desert hot springs hikers Boy Scouts Pacific Crest Trail nudists cowboys dogs 2010-12-10T00:17:27Z News Article The movie-magic West rides again http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-movie-magic-west-rides-again If you want to see the Old West live again, drop by a ranch and offer to help with the springtime cattle branding. No publisher Mary Flitner Mary Flitner Western culture cattle branding ranchers cowboys 2010-02-05T09:04:27Z News Article The Rise of the Minotaur http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.9/the-rise-of-the-minotaur Bull riding explodes from its rural Western roots to become a modern spectacle along the lines of NASCAR. No publisher Craig Childs rodeo Zack Brown Professional Bull Riding Western culture cowboys 2010-02-05T08:50:35Z News Article In hunting camp, the closet is closed http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16158 A "gay, wolf-loving, tree-hugging former Marine" writes about Brokeback Mountain, elk hunting, and his own lifelong experience with shame and prejudice No publisher David Stalling Communities Western Culture Hunting Richard Stalling Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx gay experience homosexuality life stories prejudice homophobia elk hunting wilderness backcountry hiking backpacking wolves cowboys Western culture machismo coming out of the closet 2010-02-05T08:57:12Z News Article Ego gates get my goat — and that's just the beginning http://www.hcn.org/issues/299/15550 Why do newcomers to the West need to build such obnoxious entrance gates to their brand-new ranchettes? No publisher Linda M. Hasselstrom Communities in Transition Old West New West ranchettes second homes relocating entrance gates National Arbor Day Foundation High Plains cowboys ranch life small town life drought communities 2010-02-05T09:24:59Z News Article Down — but far from out — in Drummond http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15494 In Drummond: Ranch Life in the West, Jill Brody uses photographs and interviews to paint a vivid portrait of life in a hardscrabble Montana ranching town No publisher Betsy Marston Western Culture Drummond Montana Jill Brody ranch life ranchers rural towns Western lifestyle cowboys photography 2010-02-05T09:24:36Z News Article The Far East yearns for the wild West http://www.hcn.org/issues/295/15423 The Wild West lives on in a distinctly Eastern way at Western Village in Imaichi, Japan, sister city of Rapid City, S.D. No publisher Josh Garrett-Davis Western Culture Old West Mount Rushmore Imaichi Japan Western Village cowboys Japanese culture Tokyo cultural differences travel tourist attractions kitsch Rapid City South Dakota 2010-02-05T09:24:17Z News Article Gators, dirt and hot tubs in the Cowboy State http://www.hcn.org/issues/294/15382 Annie Proulx’s new collection of short stories, Bad Dirt, celebrates and skewers the colorful characters of rural Wyoming No publisher Stephen J. Lyons Western Culture Annie Proulx Wyoming Western communities rural life cowboys short stories contemporary fiction humor socio-economics 2010-02-05T09:24:03Z News Article A look at the West, in the funhouse mirror http://www.hcn.org/issues/294/15380 Old Westerners and New Westerners are equally hypocritical when it comes to caricaturing each other and not looking at themselves No publisher Jim Stiles Communities in Transition Old West New West Ed Abbey hypocrisy grazing small towns Western culture rural lifestyle cowboys off-road vehicles mountain bikes wilderness hunting Dick Cheney cultural divide conflict recreation SUVs Bush administration land ethics 2010-02-05T09:24:02Z 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 Resurrecting J. Thomas http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16194 The crumbling remains of a man named J. Thomas have a story to tell about life and death in the northern Colorado in the 1870s No publisher Laura Pritchett Western History Western Culture Laura Pritchett mothers and daughters Western history Old West cemeteries graves burial places human remains ranch life northern Colorado death last words Bingham Hill Cemetery cowboys ranchers skeletons 2011-12-15T17:54:11Z News Article Elementary, my dear cowpuncher http://www.hcn.org/issues/334/16687 In Steve Hockensmith’s historical mystery, Holmes on the Range, Montana cowboys inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories try their hand at solving a murder No publisher Erica Olsen century West Arthur Conan Doyle hands ranch 19th Steve Hockensmith Montana ranch life historical cowboys Holmes on the Range Western novels mysteries Sherlock Holmes 2010-09-14T22:20:34Z News Article Just another giddyup http://www.hcn.org/issues/333/16670 The New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association’s Zia Rodeo brings out all kinds of cowboys and cowgirls No publisher Laura Paskus homosexuals Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Posse Arena cowboys Zia Rodeo New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association lesbians cowgirls Western Culture gay culture bronc-riding 2010-09-22T22:04:08Z News Article