Worlds apart

Hal Herring writes thoughtfully and deeply about a misled and misdirected tragedy of ignorance (“Making Sense of Malheur”). His frustration at the lack of discussions of substance is what so many of us experience when trying to have a meaningful give-and-take dialogue with people who care not about any history other than that they’ve constructed […]

I appreciate Hal Herring’s candid description of his personal longing for freedom and his disappointment in the low intellectual content of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupiers’ motivations (“Making Sense of Malheur,” HCN, 3/21/16). Half a lifetime ago, I would have had more sympathy with the malcontents. Even now, I think that while the Hammonds […]

The Oregon Trail was my introduction to the West (“Oregon’s Trail Through Time,” HCN, 3/7/16). In 1975, I embarked on an auto trip along as much of the trail as I could manage, using the late Gregory Franzwa’s The Oregon Trail Revisited as my guide, along with a huge roll of county road maps at […]

I lived in the Los Alamos area for over 26 years, and I am very dismayed and saddened to see what has become of the beloved Valle Grande (“A park ‘in the raw’,” HCN, 3/7/16), now Valles Caldera National Preserve. It was always so special to know that there was at least one place where […]