http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15520 In With a Measure of Grace: The Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant, Blake Spalding and Jennifer Castle tell how they ended up running the Hell’s Backbone Grill in the remote community of Boulder, Utah No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Western Culture Hell’s Backbone Grill Blake Spalding Jennifer Castle Lavinia Spalding restaurants cooks recipes small town living cafes Mormons Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument 2012-03-30T22:02:06Z News Article 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 http://www.hcn.org/issues/329/16527 The Boy Who Invented Skiing" is the memoir of Swain Wolfe, who spent his boyhood in a Colorado Springs tuberculosis sanatorium in the '30s No publisher Mary Sojourner Western Culture 2011-11-30T19:28:46Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16462 Matt Jenkins visits the annual Combine Demolition Derby in the tiny farming town of Lind, Wash. No publisher Matt Jenkins Communities Western Culture Crops Combine Demolition Derby Lind Washington John Deere International Harvester tractors farm communities rural life agriculture farming equipment Bill Loomis Matt Miller Josh Knodel Dennis Starring Dana Knight Travis Willson Bill Wills Karle 2011-11-21T23:58:41Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16434 In Blithe Tomato, Mike Madison writes engagingly about working the land on a small farm in California’s Central Valley No publisher Laura Paskus Communities Western Culture Crops Blithe Tomato Mike Madison essays anthologies small farmers farmers markets California gophers tractors lilacs Central Valley Travis Air Force Base native grasses small towns communities rural life autobiography personal experience memoi 2011-11-21T22:33:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/322/16311 In No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy discards his bitter nostalgia to tell a story set along the border in the 1980s No publisher Laura Paskus Western Culture Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men U.S.-Mexico border novels fiction Western life border life deserts Vietnam veterans law enforcement officers All the Pretty Horses The Crossing Rio Grande 2011-11-11T23:40:25Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15608 A writer takes a 1,600-mile Greyhound bus ride from Salt Lake City into Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington, and listens to the stories of the Westerners he meets No publisher Tim Westby Western Culture Greyhound bus bus travel road trips Western U.S.A. bus routes rural communities transportation bus terminals bus service small towns human encounters 2011-05-16T23:05:30Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15593 Wyoming’s billboards are ugly, and probably outdated, too No publisher Bill Croke Western Culture Vermont Wyoming politics billboards advertising Internet tourism road trips driving signs Yellowstone motels Shelli Johnson Casper Star-Tribune Edward Abbey 2011-03-31T22:51:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16548 Albuquerque photojournalist Jaelyn deMaria has devoted the last few years to documenting the pilgrims who come to the shrine of Monte Cristo Rey on the United States-Mexico border near El Paso. No publisher Lee Ross Catholics Jaelyn deMaria Healing Earthquakes pilgrimages Albuquerque Journal Stations of the Cross shrines Jimmy Santiag Southwestern culture profiles Border Patrol Hispanic women Western Culture Communities photojournalists Chimayo Monte Cristo Rey Catholic childhood 2010-10-26T22:17:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16587 Since 1992, Dan Price has been publishing a hand-drawn, illustrated zine called Moonlight Chronicles from his tiny, hobbit-style home in a meadow in Joseph, Ore. No publisher Rebecca Clarren independent pen and ink drawings Moonlight Chronicles simple living Media zines Dan Price journalism artists media photographers writers Utne Independent Press Award Simple Shoes Western Culture hobos Jack Kerouac Henry David Thoreau 2010-10-14T22:47:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16584 The Taos Horse Fly, with its biting journalism, does its best to live up to its name No publisher M. John Fayhee Media community newspapers reporting publishing Taos News information local politics Taos Horse Fly New Mexico culture journalism Indian gambling Native Americans grassroots media Bill Whaley casinos Western Culture Gambling investigative journalism Taos Pueblo independent media 2010-10-14T22:09:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16583 The North Coast Journal has been published in Arcata, Calif., for almost 18 years by Judy Hodgson, a journalist who believes in stirring the pot No publisher M. John Fayhee Humboldt County logging Chronicle Judy Hodgson small-town newspapers timber companies Media reporters Forests publishing communities Arcata California Western Culture The North Coast Journal San Francisco Logging Communities investigative journalism journalists independent media 2010-10-14T22:04:05Z News Article 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 http://www.hcn.org/issues/40/1225 The writer considers how hard it is to love the earth or anything else in the abstract, as opposed to the particular and familiar, and reminisces about getting to know a horse when he was a child. No publisher C. L. Rawlins Western Culture 2010-09-21T15:25:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/334/16682 Brian Peterson considers himself the interim governor of the State of Jefferson, an area in Northern California and southern Oregon that has been talking about secession since the early 1940s No publisher Emma Brown Mount Shasta State of Jefferson Yreka Western history Wayne Hage Klamath water libertarians Gilbert Gable California limited government property-rights activists Western Culture Brian Peterson secession 20/30 Club war 2010-09-14T22:04:37Z News Article