Alexander von Humboldt and the spread of Aedes aegypti.
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September 19, 2016
In our special issue Frontera Incognita, High Country News revisits the Borderlands. The Borderlands, as our collection of stories show, means different things to different people. We explore the many relationships people have with our country's perimeter.
Feature
Through the present and past of a border town, on the trail of literary legend José Revueltas.
Editor's Note
Current
Everything moves across lines here. Nothing’s straightforward.
How the natural world challenges human notions of division.
An excerpt from Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me.
A number of universities, especially those in border states, have programs that examine the influx of people who bring change to their new homes.
Three poems for the Borderlands.
A family’s journey from the San Luis Valley to Denver, in illustrations.
HCN.org news in brief.
Along the border, identity and memory.
Book Reviews
A review of En Recuerdo de, a look at the afterlife of Mexican cemeteries in the West.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
A Wyoming rancher and self-proclaimed maverick, Bell led a lifelong conservation effort.
- A viral coyote-badger video demonstrates the incredible complexity of nature
- The residual power of Ammon Bundy
- Oklahoma’s tribes unite against a common foe: Their Cherokee governor
- Billionaires are changing communities and the wild in Wyoming
- Indigenous women face extra barriers when it comes to reproductive rights
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