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/265/14472 Print the Legend: Photography and the American West by Martha Sandweiss takes a hard and thoughtful look at the historical uses of photography in the West No publisher Josh Garrett-Davis History of photography photographs American Indians Western history Martha Sandweiss Print the Legend 2010-02-05T09:55:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.15/who-is-denny-rehberg-really Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg has exploited his family's long Montana history to get where he is today, but his current campaign for Democrat Jon Tester's Senate seat is raising questions about his record and that history. No publisher Ray Ring Political campaigns Denny Rehberg Jon Tester Western history Real estate developers A.J. Rehberg Western identity politics Montana U.S. Senate race Montana farmers Rehberg family history Billings, Montana Montana ranchers Western agriculture Election 2012 2013-03-26T15:57:47Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.7/what2019s-in-a-name The names on the Western landscape tell a harrowing, fascinating and at times hilarious story. No publisher Sarah Gilman Western history Place names U.S. Geological Survey 2011-04-26T21:13:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/365/17554 For better and for worse, the West of today was created by Abraham Lincoln and the early Republican Party. No publisher Ed Quillen Abraham Lincoln frontier Republican Party slavery Western history Western expansion America 19th century History 2010-12-17T00:32:17Z 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/wotr/tuning-out-and-finding-local A short day's drive from where you live can you put in touch with local history and help you meet new people in fascinating small towns. No publisher Linda M. Hasselstrom South Dakota rural life Western history Small towns Sarah Campbell Deadwood Seth Bullock 2011-07-08T14:30:45Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.16/township-13-south-rage-92-west-section-35 A writer looks into the history of the people who lived on the Colorado mesa she now calls home. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Colorado farmers Western history Elizabeth Foote Foote Fields family life Paonia Western Slope 2010-02-05T09:03:48Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/this-land-was-once-their-land The Northwest is still haunted by the tragic history of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians. No publisher Rich Wandschneider Chief Joseph Western history Nez Perce Indians Indian Wars Oregon is Indian Country exhibit Allen Josephy 2010-10-22T16:10:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.21/the-supposedly-protected-wyoming-range-faces-new-energy-development Roughnecks and hunters are fighting plans to drill for natural gas in the Hoback-Noble Basin of the Wyoming Range. No publisher Emilene Ostlind San Francisco Bay early railroad towns Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge Western history Station Island Drawbridge, California Western ghost towns George Mundershietz 2010-12-08T15:07:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/269/14586 Wyoming’s Green Mountain Common Allotment is one of the West’s last big, wide-open landscapes – but these days, ranchers, environmentalists, history buffs and the BLM are arguing over whether it’s time to start putting up fences No publisher Geoffrey O'Gara Grazing Open range fences fencing barbed wire grazing allotments public lands pronghorn antelope cattle sheep wild horses overgrazing Oregon Trail Mormon Trail Bureau of Land Management BLM Western history Tom Abernathy Lloyd Dorsey Sharon Made 2010-02-05T09:56:20Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.18/the-end-of-western-welfare Paul VanDevelder considers the consequences of “capitalism without a conscience” and predicts the end of free lunches for the West. No publisher Paul VanDevelder Infrastructure Economic crisis Western history Bill Yellowtail U.S. economy Capitalism Government pork Government handouts 2010-02-05T08:37:52Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.2/the-easy-way-to-purify-our-geography We can't change the names of places that were named for scoundrels, but we can change their namesakes. No publisher Ed Quillen Martin Luther King Jr. Western history place names William Rufus DeVane King Washington King County Sir St. George Gore geographic names Schuyler Colfax George Armstrong Custer Al Gore 2010-02-05T08:50:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.18/the-diplomacy-of-water Norris Hundley's magisterial Water in the West is back in print to enlighten readers about water politics, especially the Colorado River Compact. No publisher Matt Jenkins Colorado River Compact Western history Norris Hundley Jr. Water in the West prior appropriation water rights Western water politics 2010-02-05T08:56:00Z 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