The Troubled Life of Peter Burnett
Few people in the nineteenth-century American West could boast the achievements of Peter Burnett. He helped organize the first major wagon train to the Oregon...
Grass Roots
Marijuana legalization is unfolding across the American West, but cultivation of the cannabis plant is anything but green. Unregulated outdoor grows are polluting ecosystems, high-powered...
Accidental Gravity
The compelling essays in Bernard Quetchenbach’s Accidental Gravity move from upstate New York to the western United States, from urban and suburban places to wild...
A Week in Yellowstone’s Thorofare
The remotest place in the country, outside of Alaska, is a region in Yellowstone National Park ironically named the Thorofare for its historic role as...
The Color of Night
A Hunger for High Country
Before the 1970s few women were employed by the United States Forest Service. During the 1960s and 70s new environmental and fair employment laws meant...
Water in the 21st-Century West
Water in the 21st-Century West offers a timely look at the central issue facing the American West — the region's diminishing water supply. It collects...
River Basins of the American West
Examining water issues through the lens of major Western U.S. watersheds, River Basins of the American West explores why water has been, and remains, the...