One of the best things about Helena, MT summers is watching these games.
Items by Stephen Lyons
How to empathize with people who experience devastating loss after fires and floods
The Western landscape is full of arousing features.
In The Wild Trees, Richard Preston explores the amazing
ecosystems hidden at the top of the world’s tallest
trees.
In All God’s Children: Inside the Dark and Violent
World of Street Families, Rene Denfeld tells the disturbing story
of Portland’s teen runaways, charting the path that took one
of them, Danielle Marie Cox, from honor student to convicted
murderer.
Former Park Service supervisors Bill Wade and Rob
Arnberger formed the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees to
defend the national parks from what they see as the Bush
administration’s ill-conceived changes
In his new novel, The Whistling Season,
Ivan Doig explores the emotional life of settlers in Marias Coulee,
Mont., in 1909
In Rare Bird, author Maria Mudd Ruth
pursues the mystery of the Pacific Northwest’s elusive
marbled murrelet
Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican
in America is the story of Rose Castillo
Guilbault’s childhood journey from Mexico’s Sonoran
Desert to a new life in California’s Salinas Valley
Gary Ferguson explores the history and culture of the
backbone of the West in The Great Divide: The Rocky
Mountains in the American Mind
In Eating Stone, her last book, Ellen
Meloy tells the eloquent, passionate story of the time she spent
studying the Blue Door Band of desert bighorn sheep
Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico and Ellsworth Air
Force Base in South Dakota narrowly escape being shut down by the
federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission
The Air Force wants to close Cannon Air Force Base, but
the nearby town of Clovis, N.M., is not ready to let go of its main
economic engine
In The Deep Dark, Gregg Olsen tells the
tragic story of the 1972 fire in the Sunshine Mine in Idaho’s
Silver Valley, which took the lives of 91 men
Annie Proulx’s new collection of short stories,
Bad Dirt, celebrates and skewers the colorful
characters of rural Wyoming
The Cyanide Canary by Joseph Hilldorfer
and Robert Dugoni tells a chilling tale of an environmental crime
in Idaho that ruined a worker’s life
Gretel Ehrlich’s recent book, The Future of Ice: A
Journey Into Cold, is an intimate "ode and lament" on global
warming and the end of winter
Wyoming writer Mark Spragg’s new novel, An
Unfinished Life, explores the universal territory of a
fractured family’s life
The writer examines an Arizona ballot initiative on
immigration and finds racism at work
Marc Reisner’s posthumously published book,
A Dangerous Place: California’s Unsettling
Fate, looks at California and its earthquakes, and imagines what
will happen when "the Big One" finally hits
Marc Reisner’s posthumously published book,
A Dangerous Place: California’s Unsettling
Fate, looks at California and its earthquakes, and imagines what
will happen when "the Big One" finally hits
A plan to pay for new police cars in Blackfoot, Idaho, by
selling ad space on them is an amazingly bad idea
A visit to Alaska’s Kodiak Island leads the author
to feel meek and mild in comparison to the manly men he meets, who
battle wolverines in the wildest place in the country.
Independent, family-owned newspapers are disappearing down
the gullets of huge corporations, and American democracy is
directly threatened by the loss of a diversity of voices.
Bradford Morrow's novel, Ariel's Crossing, tells a
poignant story of family and reconciliation in New Mexico, where
the nuclear weapons testing of 40 years ago still haunts the land
and the people.
In "Lone Patriot: The Short Career of an American
Militiaman," Jane Kramer profiles wannabe-Patriot John Pitner, who
was commander in chief of the Washington State Militia until his
group began to unravel and the FBI arrested him.
Mike LaScoula, the Spokane County Health District's
chemical and physical hazards advisor, describes the toxic hazards
created when a house is turned into an illegal methamphetamine
lab.
In his own words, Erec Hopkins describes how he started
injecting - and selling - methamphetamines.
As methamphetamine moves into the small, isolated towns of
the rural West, the waste left by its manufacture pollutes the
environment while the drug's abuse and the traffic in it strain the
resources of local law enforcement and social services.
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- Yes, the drought really is that bad
- The Navajo Nation’s first economist takes a fresh view on development
- The Yurok Tribe is bringing condors home to Northern California skies
- What’s wrong with the Manitou Cliff Dwellings Museum and Preserve?
- Duwamish Tribe sues Interior in federal court, alleging sex discrimination
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