An improbable newspaper reaches an improbable age.


Saga of a High Country Newsman

The effort to get the word out — about wilderness, about archaic mining laws, about illegal shooting of golden eagles, and so many more issues besides — would cost Bell his ranch, many of his friends, and, very nearly, his sanity. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.18/download-entire-issue

Tom Bell: The quiet revolutionary

In 1970, High Country News was born of Tom Bell’s passion. For five years its pages thundered with his outrage at ranchers, politicians and corporations that threatened Wyoming’s water, wild lands and animals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.18/download-entire-issue