What ‘High Horse’ gets right about Black cowboys and the West.
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Posted inMarch 2026: The Uncertainty of Farming in the Colorado River Basin
FROM THE GRIMOIRE
A poem by D.A. Powell.
Posted inFebruary 2026: The Recording Artists
How community organizers are amplifying Oregon’s Black music history
“The place just embraced me. Everybody was singing the same song.”
Posted inFebruary 2026: The Recording Artists
The little-known photographer who documented a changing Okanogan, Washington
A century later, Frank Matsura’s images are still at the heart of families’ memories.
Posted inFebruary 2026: The Recording Artists
Learning to two-step at a queer country bar
With a wedding months away, a writer takes a dance class to prepare.
Posted inJanuary 2026: Deep Time in the West
Three books explore deep time and help us look forward
The future has already happened.
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‘Train Dreams’ is an ode to the lonely labor of forestry
In the new film adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella, I saw my own Forest Service career reflected back at me.
Posted inDecember 2025: Wild Harvest
Reno’s Gay Rodeo is back
Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut down the Gay Rodeo Finals, this year the riders came home.
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How I found hope while reporting on a metal fest
Peek behind the scenes at the challenges and joy of covering Fire in the Mountains.
Posted inNovember 2025: Precious Metalheads
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Posted inNovember 2025: Precious Metalheads
The fallout from Ruby Ridge
Disillusionment pushes Jess Walter’s characters to the brink in his new novel ‘So Far Gone.’
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The first film made in Idaho was headed back to the big screen. Then DOGE intervened
When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
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Montana’s Chinese past isn’t past
A forgotten Chinese cemetery reveals how Missoula buries its past — and why the present is so familiar.
Posted inNovember 2025: Precious Metalheads
What inspires Indigenous ballet dancer Jock Soto
The dancer seeks to preserve his legacy while educating others about his time on the biggest ballet stage.
Posted inDecember 2025: Wild Harvest
He makes bows — and bow makers
Joshua Hood is decolonizing traditional bow-making and archery education from his Portland backyard.
Posted inSeptember 2025: Who Controls Our Food?
Acknowledging the hands that feed us
Narsiso Martinez aims to dignify farmworkers through his artwork
Posted inAugust 2025: Fire Culture
Chicken buckets, baked beans, liters of coke: the final meals of death row inmates
Julie Green painted the last meals served to people sentenced to die in an attempt to humanize capital punishment.