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  • An Interview with Desert Photographer Stephen Strom

    Stephen Strom has been photographing the deserts of the American Southwest for thirty years, creating arresting images of forbidding, breathtaking landscapes containing geological formations and striking colors like nothing else on earth. Strom worked for over a decade as an astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, where [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 7:01am EDT

  • An Interview with Desert Photographer Stephen Strom

    Stephen Strom has been photographing the deserts of the American Southwest for thirty years, creating arresting images of forbidding, breathtaking landscapes containing geological formations and striking colors like nothing else on earth. Strom worked for over a decade as an astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, where [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 7:01am EDT

  • An Interview with Desert Photographer Stephen Strom

    Stephen Strom has been photographing the deserts of the American Southwest for thirty years, creating arresting images of forbidding, breathtaking landscapes containing geological formations and striking colors like nothing else on earth. Strom worked for over a decade as an astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, where [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 7:01am EDT

  • An Interview with Desert Photographer Stephen Strom

    Stephen Strom has been photographing the deserts of the American Southwest for thirty years, creating arresting images of forbidding, breathtaking landscapes containing geological formations and striking colors like nothing else on earth. Strom worked for over a decade as an astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, where [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 7:01am EDT

  • An Interview with Desert Photographer Stephen Strom

    Stephen Strom has been photographing the deserts of the American Southwest for thirty years, creating arresting images of forbidding, breathtaking landscapes containing geological formations and striking colors like nothing else on earth. Strom worked for over a decade as an astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, where [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 7:00am EDT

  • An Interview with Desert Photographer Stephen Strom

    Stephen Strom has been photographing the deserts of the American Southwest for thirty years, creating arresting images of forbidding, breathtaking landscapes containing geological formations and striking colors like nothing else on earth. Strom worked for over a decade as an astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, where [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 7:00am EDT

  • A Reissue of "Antonio Montoya," Rick Collignon's First Guadalupe Novel

    The Journal of Antonio Montoya By Rick Collignon Unbridled Books, 214 pages, $15.95 This month Unbridled Books reprinted Rick Collignon's The Journal of Antonio Montoya, first published in 1996. Antonio Montoya was the first of Collignon's four novels set in the New Mexico town of Guadalupe, and it establishes this traditional, insular, and [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • A Reissue of "Antonio Montoya," Rick Collignon's First Guadalupe Novel

    The Journal of Antonio Montoya By Rick Collignon Unbridled Books, 214 pages, $15.95 This month Unbridled Books reprinted Rick Collignon's The Journal of Antonio Montoya, first published in 1996. Antonio Montoya was the first of Collignon's four novels set in the New Mexico town of Guadalupe, and it establishes this traditional, insular, and [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • A Reissue of "Antonio Montoya," Rick Collignon's First Guadalupe Novel

    The Journal of Antonio Montoya By Rick Collignon Unbridled Books, 214 pages, $15.95 This month Unbridled Books reprinted Rick Collignon's The Journal of Antonio Montoya, first published in 1996. Antonio Montoya was the first of Collignon's four novels set in the New Mexico town of Guadalupe, and it establishes this traditional, insular, and [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • Beetle Hysteria Again

    A prominent article in the New York Times titled "Tiny Beetle Adds New Dynamic to Forest Fire Control Efforts" quotes many foresters and others who suggest that beetle-kill trees across the West will create larger wildfires and by implications are "destroying" our forests. But the underlying assumptions are all flawed. [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 8:25am EDT

  • Beetle Hysteria Again

    Beetle hysteria has raised its head again, and I am not talking about the Fab four. A prominent article in the New York Times titled "Tiny Beetle Adds New Dynamic to Forest Fire Control Efforts" quotes many foresters and others who suggest that beetle-kill trees across the West will create [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 8:25am EDT

  • Beetle Hysteria Again

    A prominent article in the New York Times titled "Tiny Beetle Adds New Dynamic to Forest Fire Control Efforts" quotes many foresters and others who suggest that beetle-kill trees across the West will create larger wildfires and by implications are "destroying" our forests. But the underlying assumptions are all flawed. [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 8:25am EDT

  • Beetle Hysteria Again

    Beetle hysteria has raised its head again, and I am not talking about the Fab four. A prominent article in the New York Times titled "Tiny Beetle Adds New Dynamic to Forest Fire Control Efforts" quotes many foresters and others who suggest that beetle-kill trees across the West will create [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 8:25am EDT

  • Ghost Ball: Rick Collignon's "Madewell Brown"

    Madewell Brown By Rick Collignon Unbridled Books, 213 pages, $23.95 Rick Collignon returns to the town of Guadalupe, New Mexico for his fourth novel, the quietly powerful Madewell Brown. The title character is a mystery man, long gone, who turns out to have been a talented pitcher for a Negro league team out [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • Ghost Ball: Rick Collignon's "Madewell Brown"

    Madewell Brown By Rick Collignon Unbridled Books, 213 pages, $23.95 Rick Collignon returns to the town of Guadalupe, New Mexico for his fourth novel, the quietly powerful Madewell Brown. The title character is a mystery man, long gone, who turns out to have been a talented pitcher for a Negro league team out [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • Robert Boswell's "The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards"

    The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell Graywolf Press, 288 pages, $24 Robert Boswell's varied new collection The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards features some stories that pass by in a few pages while others stretch out to novella length, some that are light and comic, and others that are dark [...]
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    Posted: May 10, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • Robert Boswell's "The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards"

    The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell Graywolf Press, 288 pages, $24 Robert Boswell's varied new collection The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards features some stories that pass by in a few pages while others stretch out to novella length, some that are light and comic, and others that are dark [...]
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    Posted: May 10, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • An Interview with Stanley Crawford

    Stanley Crawford, born in 1937, is the author of five novels (Gascoyne, Travel Notes, Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine, Some Instructions, and Petroleum Man) and three non-fiction works (Mayordomo, A Garlic Testament, and The River in Winter), and has been writing and farming with his wife Rose Mary [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • An Interview with Stanley Crawford

    Stanley Crawford, born in 1937, is the author of five novels (Gascoyne, Travel Notes, Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine, Some Instructions, and Petroleum Man) and three non-fiction works (Mayordomo, A Garlic Testament, and The River in Winter), and has been writing and farming with his wife Rose Mary [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • The Mightiest Rock: Tom Zoellner's "Uranium"

    Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner Viking, 337 pages, $26.95 In his new book Uranium, Tom Zoellner follows the trail of an element that was considered useless until less than a century ago, when scientists discovered how to unleash its power, and is now one of [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 7:00am EDT

  • The Mightiest Rock: Tom Zoellner's "Uranium"

    Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner Viking, 337 pages, $26.95 In his new book Uranium, Tom Zoellner follows the trail of an element that was considered useless until less than a century ago, when scientists discovered how to unleash its power, and is now one of [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 7:00am EDT

  • Man Gives $20,000 to Help Golden's Clear Creek Books

    Lisa Knudsen, director of the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association recently wrote in the organization's newsletter about the fate of a couple of Colorado bookstores. Craig Johnson, the owner of Clear Creek Books in Golden, Colo. was having trouble keeping his business afloat. After some media attention about the [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 9:00am EDT

  • Man Gives $20,000 to Help Golden's Clear Creek Books

    Lisa Knudsen, director of the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association recently wrote in the organization's newsletter about the fate of a couple of Colorado bookstores. Craig Johnson, the owner of Clear Creek Books in Golden, Colo. was having trouble keeping his business afloat. After some media attention about the [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 8:00am EDT

  • Antonya Nelson's "Nothing Right"

    Nothing Right by Antonya Nelson Bloomsbury USA 304 pages, $25 Antonya Nelson packs a novel's scope into her short stories, plunging the reader inside complex family dramas within just a few incisive lines. She is brutally funny in her new collection, Nothing Right, with stories set in the places she calls home--Telluride, Colo. and [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Antonya Nelson's "Nothing Right"

    Nothing Right by Antonya Nelson Bloomsbury USA 304 pages, $25 Antonya Nelson packs a novel's scope into her short stories, plunging the reader inside complex family dramas within just a few incisive lines. She is brutally funny in her new collection, Nothing Right, with stories set in the places she calls home--Telluride, Colo. and [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2009, 7:00am EST

  • Antonya Nelson's "Nothing Right"

    Nothing Right by Antonya Nelson Bloomsbury USA 304 pages, $25 Antonya Nelson packs a novel's scope into her short stories, plunging the reader inside complex family dramas within just a few incisive lines. She is brutally funny in her new collection, Nothing Right, with stories set in the places she calls home--Telluride, Colo. and [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2009, 7:00am EST

  • "Otero Mesa" Captures the Rugged Beauty of the New Mexico Grassland

    Otero Mesa: Preserving America's Wildest Grassland By Gregory McNamee with photographs by Stephen Strom & Stephen Capra University of New Mexico Press, $24.95 Otero Mesa: Preserving America's Wildest Grassland is a plea for its subject's preservation and a collection of beautiful photographs that document Otero Mesa, a rugged 1.2 million acre stretch [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • "Otero Mesa" Captures the Rugged Beauty of the New Mexico Grassland

    Otero Mesa: Preserving America's Wildest Grassland By Gregory McNamee with photographs by Stephen Strom & Stephen Capra University of New Mexico Press, $24.95 Otero Mesa: Preserving America's Wildest Grassland is a plea for its subject's preservation and a collection of beautiful photographs that document Otero Mesa, a rugged 1.2 million acre stretch [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 7:00am EST

  • "Otero Mesa" Captures the Rugged Beauty of the New Mexico Grassland

    Otero Mesa: Preserving America's Wildest Grassland By Gregory McNamee with photographs by Stephen Strom & Stephen Capra University of New Mexico Press, $24.95 Otero Mesa: Preserving America's Wildest Grassland is a plea for its subject's preservation and a collection of beautiful photographs that document Otero Mesa, a rugged 1.2 million acre stretch [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 7:00am EST

  • Billy the Kid Rides Again in John Vernon's "Lucky Billy"

    Lucky Billy By John Vernon Houghton Mifflin, 294 pages, $24 Who was Billy the Kid? An outlaw with many names--Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, and William H. Bonney, among others--he was dead before his 22nd birthday, and rumored to have killed 21 men. Billy the Kid was something of a literary invention--little known during [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2009, 4:00am EST

  • Billy the Kid Rides Again in John Vernon's "Lucky Billy"

    Lucky Billy By John Vernon Houghton Mifflin, 294 pages, $24 Who was Billy the Kid? An outlaw with many names--Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, and William H. Bonney, among others--he was dead before his 22nd birthday, and rumored to have killed 21 men. Billy the Kid was something of a literary invention--little known during [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2009, 3:00am EST

  • Best Western Books of 2008

    It's time for my second annual Best Western Book list, and as I did last year, I'm going to focus on books set in this region (with a few exceptions for excellent books written by writers from this region but set elsewhere), naming my favorites from each state. I managed [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2008, 4:00am EST

  • Best Western Books of 2008

    It's time for my second annual Best Western Book list, and as I did last year, I'm going to focus on books set in this region (with a few exceptions for excellent books written by writers from this region but set elsewhere), naming my favorites from each state. I managed [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2008, 4:00am EST

  • Best Western Books of 2008

    It's time for my second annual Best Western Book list, and as I did last year, I'm going to focus on books set in this region (with a few exceptions for excellent books written by writers from this region but set elsewhere), naming my favorites from each state. I managed [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2008, 4:00am EST

  • Best Western Books of 2008

    It's time for my second annual Best Western Book list, and as I did last year, I'm going to focus on books set in this region (with a few exceptions for excellent books written by writers from this region but set elsewhere), naming my favorites from each state. I managed [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2008, 3:00am EST

  • An Interview with Erin Hogan

    Erin Hogan's first book, The Spiral Jetta, is an entertaining account of the road trip she took through the American West in her Volkswagon Jetta, seeking the greatest hits of land art, including Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Michael Heizer's Double Negative in Utah and Walter De Maria's Lightning Field [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 6:32am EST

  • An Interview with Erin Hogan

    Erin Hogan's first book, The Spiral Jetta, is an entertaining account of the road trip she took through the American West in her Volkswagon Jetta, seeking the greatest hits of land art, including Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Michael Heizer's Double Negative in Utah and Walter De Maria's Lightning Field [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 5:32am EST

  • Tony Hillerman Dies at 83 and Western Books for Politicians

    New Mexico novelist Tony Hillerman died Saturday in Albuquerque of pulmonary failure at the age of 83. Hillerman wrote a well-loved series of mystery novels featuring Navajo characters, and the New York Times ran a lengthy profile of his career. Galleycat pointed to a touching essay about Hillerman by Deanne [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2008, 6:55am EDT

  • Tony Hillerman Dies at 83 and Western Books for Politicians

    New Mexico novelist Tony Hillerman died Saturday in Albuquerque of pulmonary failure at the age of 83. Hillerman wrote a well-loved series of mystery novels featuring Navajo characters, and the New York Times ran a lengthy profile of his career. Galleycat pointed to a touching essay about Hillerman by Deanne [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2008, 5:55am EDT

  • Guy from Albuquerque Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

    This year's Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clé;zio, a French citizen, or as I prefer to think of him, a guy from Albuquerque. According to the Nobel Prize website, "Since the 90s Le Clé;zio and his wife share their time between Albuquerque in New Mexico, [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2008, 9:00am EDT

  • Guy from Albuquerque Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

    This year's Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clé;zio, a French citizen, or as I prefer to think of him, a guy from Albuquerque. According to the Nobel Prize website, "Since the 90s Le Clé;zio and his wife share their time between Albuquerque in New Mexico, [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2008, 9:00am EDT

  • Guy from Albuquerque Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

    This year's Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clé;zio, a French citizen, or as I prefer to think of him, a guy from Albuquerque. According to the Nobel Prize website, "Since the 90s Le Clé;zio and his wife share their time between Albuquerque in New Mexico, [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • An Interview with Amy Shearn

    In Amy Shearn's debut novel, How Far is the Ocean From Here, Susannah Prue, a nine-month pregnant surrogate mother for a wealthy Chicago couple flees to the desert "somewhere between West Texas and East New Mexico" and installs herself at the "godforsaken fleabag" Thunder Lodge motel, where she tries to [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2008, 7:06am EDT

  • An Interview with Amy Shearn

    In Amy Shearn's debut novel, How Far is the Ocean From Here, Susannah Prue, a nine-month pregnant surrogate mother for a wealthy Chicago couple flees to the desert "somewhere between West Texas and East New Mexico" and installs herself at the "godforsaken fleabag" Thunder Lodge motel, where she tries to [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2008, 7:06am EDT

  • An Interview with Amy Shearn

    In Amy Shearn's debut novel, How Far is the Ocean From Here, Susannah Prue, a nine-month pregnant surrogate mother for a wealthy Chicago couple flees to the desert "somewhere between West Texas and East New Mexico" and installs herself at the "godforsaken fleabag" Thunder Lodge motel, where she tries to [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2008, 7:06am EDT

  • An Interview with Amy Shearn

    In Amy Shearn's debut novel, How Far is the Ocean From Here, Susannah Prue, a nine-month pregnant surrogate mother for a wealthy Chicago couple flees to the desert "somewhere between West Texas and East New Mexico" and installs herself at the "godforsaken fleabag" Thunder Lodge motel, where she tries to [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2008, 7:06am EDT

  • An Interview with Amy Shearn

    In Amy Shearn's debut novel, How Far is the Ocean From Here, Susannah Prue, a nine-month pregnant surrogate mother for a wealthy Chicago couple flees to the desert "somewhere between West Texas and East New Mexico" and installs herself at the "godforsaken fleabag" Thunder Lodge motel, where she tries to [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2008, 7:06am EDT

  • An Interview with Amy Shearn

    In Amy Shearn's debut novel, How Far is the Ocean From Here, Susannah Prue, a nine-month pregnant surrogate mother for a wealthy Chicago couple flees to the desert "somewhere between West Texas and East New Mexico" and installs herself at the "godforsaken fleabag" Thunder Lodge motel, where she tries to [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2008, 6:06am EDT

  • 25 New Mexico Photographers Featured in New Book

    Photography: New Mexico Edited by Thomas F. Barrow, Kristin Barendsen, and Stuart Ashman Fresco Fine Art Publications, 284 pages, $95 In the first half of the twentieth century, New Mexico's rugged landscape, rich culture, and generous sky attracted a throng of photographers who came to define the form, including Edward Weston and Ansel [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2008, 9:02am EDT

  • 25 New Mexico Photographers Featured in New Book

    Photography: New Mexico Edited by Thomas F. Barrow, Kristin Barendsen, and Stuart Ashman Fresco Fine Art Publications, 284 pages, $95 In the first half of the twentieth century, New Mexico's rugged landscape, rich culture, and generous sky attracted a throng of photographers who came to define the form, including Edward Weston and Ansel [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2008, 9:02am EDT

  • 25 New Mexico Photographers Featured in New Book

    Photography: New Mexico Edited by Thomas F. Barrow, Kristin Barendsen, and Stuart Ashman Fresco Fine Art Publications, 284 pages, $95 In the first half of the twentieth century, New Mexico's rugged landscape, rich culture, and generous sky attracted a throng of photographers who came to define the form, including Edward Weston and Ansel [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2008, 9:02am EDT

  • 25 New Mexico Photographers Featured in New Book

    Photography: New Mexico Edited by Thomas F. Barrow, Kristin Barendsen, and Stuart Ashman Fresco Fine Art Publications, 284 pages, $95 In the first half of the twentieth century, New Mexico's rugged landscape, rich culture, and generous sky attracted a throng of photographers who came to define the form, including Edward Weston and Ansel [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2008, 8:02am EDT

  • Bozeman Launches New Community Reading Program

    The first One Book-One Bozeman joins a number of other regional community reading programs when it kicks off this week, featuring Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder. The program, organized by "A host of volunteers and community partners, including the Bozeman Public Library, the Bozeman Public Library Foundation, Hopa Mountain, [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2008, 10:00am EDT

  • Bozeman Launches New Community Reading Program

    The first One Book-One Bozeman joins a number of other regional community reading programs when it kicks off this week, featuring Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder. The program, organized by "A host of volunteers and community partners, including the Bozeman Public Library, the Bozeman Public Library Foundation, Hopa Mountain, [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2008, 9:00am EDT

  • Desert Daze: Amy Shearn's "How Far is the Ocean from Here"

    How Far is the Ocean From Here By Amy Shearn Shaye Areheart Books, 307 pages, $23 Amy Shearn's surefooted debut novel How Far is the Ocean From Here transports readers to the "godforsaken fleabag" Thunder Lodge motel in the middle of a stretch of desert "somewhere between West Texas and East New Mexico," [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2008, 9:30am EDT

  • Desert Daze: Amy Shearn's "How Far is the Ocean from Here"

    How Far is the Ocean From Here By Amy Shearn Shaye Areheart Books, 307 pages, $23 Amy Shearn's surefooted debut novel How Far is the Ocean From Here transports readers to the "godforsaken fleabag" Thunder Lodge motel in the middle of a stretch of desert "somewhere between West Texas and East New Mexico," [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2008, 9:30am EDT

  • Desert Daze: Amy Shearn's "How Far is the Ocean from Here"

    How Far is the Ocean From Here By Amy Shearn Shaye Areheart Books, 307 pages, $23 Amy Shearn's surefooted debut novel How Far is the Ocean From Here transports readers to the "godforsaken fleabag" Thunder Lodge motel in the middle of a stretch of desert "somewhere between West Texas and East New Mexico," [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2008, 8:30am EDT

  • Land Art Rover: Erin Hogan's "Spiral Jetta"

    Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West By Erin Hogan University of Chicago Press 180 pages, $20 My husband announced one day that he and my daughter had been out making "land art." The next time I walked out back I saw what he meant: they had gathered [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Land Art Rover: Erin Hogan's "Spiral Jetta"

    Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West By Erin Hogan University of Chicago Press 180 pages, $20 My husband announced one day that he and my daughter had been out making "land art." The next time I walked out back I saw what he meant: they had gathered [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Land Art Rover: Erin Hogan's "Spiral Jetta"

    Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West By Erin Hogan University of Chicago Press 180 pages, $20 My husband announced one day that he and my daughter had been out making "land art." The next time I walked out back I saw what he meant: they had gathered [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 7:00am EDT

  • Denver Book Burglar Sentenced

    Last year I mentioned the arrest of the Denver booknapper, Thomas Pilaar, who checked out about 1,400 books and DVDs from Denver-area libraries and attempted to sell them online. Pilaar pleaded guilty to theft and last week was sentenced to "10 years in prison and ordered to pay $53,549 of [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2008, 10:12am EDT

  • Denver Book Burglar Sentenced

    Last year I mentioned the arrest of the Denver booknapper, Thomas Pilaar, who checked out about 1,400 books and DVDs from Denver-area libraries and attempted to sell them online. Pilaar pleaded guilty to theft and last week was sentenced to "10 years in prison and ordered to pay $53,549 of [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2008, 10:12am EDT

  • Denver Book Burglar Sentenced

    Last year I mentioned the arrest of the Denver booknapper, Thomas Pilaar, who checked out about 1,400 books and DVDs from Denver-area libraries and attempted to sell them online. Pilaar pleaded guilty to theft and last week was sentenced to "10 years in prison and ordered to pay $53,549 of [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2008, 9:12am EDT

  • Idaho Bookstore Owner Dies in Car Accident

    This week brought some sad news for the Idaho book community: Sun Valley Online reports that Gary Hunt, the owner of Iconoclast Books in Ketchum and the Sun Valley Mall, was killed in a car accident Saturday morning. Sun Valley Online established the blog Gary Hunt Remembrances for people to [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Idaho Bookstore Owner Dies in Car Accident

    This week brought some sad news for the Idaho book community: Sun Valley Online reports that Gary Hunt, the owner of Iconoclast Books in Ketchum and the Sun Valley Mall, was killed in a car accident Saturday morning. Sun Valley Online established the blog Gary Hunt Remembrances for people to [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • Wilderness is Multiple Use

    Have you ever heard somebody say they prefer "multiple use" over Wilderness? I have what seems like a thousand times, and every time I hear it, I say to myself, wrong! So, it seems like a good time to say it out loud because the words, "multiple use" have been [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2008, 4:57am EDT

  • Wilderness is Multiple Use

    Have you ever heard somebody say they prefer "multiple use" over Wilderness? I have what seems like a thousand times, and every time I hear it, I say to myself, wrong! So, it seems like a good time to say it out loud because the words, "multiple use" have been [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2008, 4:57am EDT

  • Public Land Owners Taking RAT, Forest Service to Civil Court

    Enough is enough, say the owners of our national forests. And they may have finally found a way to spike the Recreation Access Tax or RAT. After years of working through cumbersome administrative channels and several rounds in criminal court, people interested in reasonable and free access to their public land [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2008, 6:01pm EDT

  • Public Land Owners Taking RAT, Forest Service to Civil Court

    Enough is enough, say the owners of our national forests. And they may have finally found a way to spike the Recreation Access Tax or RAT. After years of working through cumbersome administrative channels and several rounds in criminal court, people interested in reasonable and free access to their public land [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2008, 6:01pm EDT

  • The Wilderness Drought and How the Green Group Feud Keeps it Alive

    Over the past two years, I've been periodically posting selections of my favorite comments from readers of my columns and articles. I plan to continue doing this, but differently. Instead of listing comments chronologically, I've edited them into general subject areas. In this case, here are a few insightful comments [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2008, 1:02am EDT

  • The Wilderness Drought and How the Green Group Feud Keeps it Alive

    Over the past two years, I've been periodically posting selections of my favorite comments from readers of my columns and articles. I plan to continue doing this, but differently. Instead of listing comments chronologically, I've edited them into general subject areas. In this case, here are a few insightful comments [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2008, 1:02am EDT

  • Merge, Remake the Forest Service

    Last month, the General Accountability Office (GA0) announced it was studying a plan to take the Forest Service out of the Department of Agriculture and merge it into the Department of the Interior. Predictably, this news was met with a chorus of yawns because we've heard many grandiose plans for [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  • Merge, Remake the Forest Service

    Last month, the General Accountability Office (GA0) announced it was studying a plan to take the Forest Service out of the Department of Agriculture and merge it into the Department of the Interior. Predictably, this news was met with a chorus of yawns because we've heard many grandiose plans for [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  • Merge, Remake the Forest Service

    Last month, the General Accountability Office (GA0) announced it was studying a plan to take the Forest Service out of the Department of Agriculture and merge it into the Department of the Interior. Predictably, this news was met with a chorus of yawns because we've heard many grandiose plans for [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  • Wolf Recovery Turned Out as Planned

    Some NewWest.Net readers might be a bit "overwolfed," but I thought the views of the man who probably did more to return the Big Dog to the Rocky Mountain West than any other person on Earth could be interesting. And surprisingly, to me at least, he thinks it all turned out [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2008, 7:41am EDT

  • Wolf Recovery Turned Out as Planned

    Some NewWest.Net readers might be a bit "overwolfed," but I thought the views of the man who probably did more to return the Big Dog to the Rocky Mountain West than any other person on Earth could be interesting. And surprisingly, to me at least, he thinks it all turned out [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2008, 7:41am EDT

  • More Fly-Fishing-Only Rivers, Please

    Before all the non-flycasters get excited about the headline, I should say that I like all kinds of fishing, not just fly fishing, a problem that has made my life a constant struggle against poverty. In fact, I have more spinning and baitcasing rods than fly rods, and probably use [...]
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    Posted: April 10, 2008, 9:01am EDT

  • More Fly-Fishing-Only Rivers, Please

    Before all the non-flycasters get excited about the headline, I should say that I like all kinds of fishing, not just fly fishing, a problem that has made my life a constant struggle against poverty. In fact, I have more spinning and baitcasing rods than fly rods, and probably use [...]
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    Posted: April 10, 2008, 9:01am EDT

  • National Poetry Month Across the Region

    In 1996, the Academy of American Poets declared April to be National Poetry Month, and no one seems inclined to argue with them. Poets and poetry-lovers across the country continue to get in the spirit of things with readings and events, and our region is no exception. Check out the [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2008, 8:00am EDT

  • A Message to Wolf Haters: Fight Trigger Itch

    Here's something you probably never heard a western rancher say: "Government is a wonderful thing." But that might be precisely what they're saying down in the coffee shops and saloons in Idaho and Wyoming because they could be thinking the federal government has accidentally given them the opportunity to shoot [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2008, 1:14pm EDT

  • Wolf Haters, Fight Trigger Itch

    Here's something you probably never heard a western rancher say: "Government is a wonderful thing." But that might be precisely what they're saying down in the coffee shops and saloons in Idaho and Wyoming because they could be thinking the federal government has accidentally given them the opportunity to shoot [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2008, 1:14pm EDT

  • A Message to Wolf Haters: Fight Trigger Itch

    Here's something you probably never heard a western rancher say: "Government is a wonderful thing." But that might be precisely what they're saying down in the coffee shops and saloons in Idaho and Wyoming because they could be thinking the federal government has accidentally given them the opportunity to shoot [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2008, 1:14pm EDT

  • No Country for Old Women: "New Stories from the Southwest"

    New Stories from the Southwest Ed. D. Seth Horton Swallow Press, 285 pages, $16.95 Swallow Press recently published the first edition of New Stories from the Southwest. This collection, which editor D. Seth Horton drew from stories that appeared in hundreds of literary magazines in 2007, is diverse and diverting, including a variety [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2008, 7:33am EDT

  • Comments Worth Repeating, 2008, II

    This is another of what's becoming a long series of posts highlighting insightful comments by the readers of NewWest.Net. This time, though, before reading them, here's a comment of my own, a comment on comments. I welcome any comment, even those critical of me or NewWest.Net, but some comments are definitely [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2008, 6:00am EDT

  • Don't Buy Fool's Gold

    During a bout of insomnia last night, I watched CNBC to see if any of the talking financial heads thought my retirement funds might stop disappearing, and there it was. Perhaps the biggest environmental, wildlife habitat and water quality problem we don't like to discuss. Yes, it's touchy, but that [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2008, 8:59am EDT

  • An Interview with Peter Brown and Kent Haruf

    I recently spoke to Peter Brown and Kent Haruf when they were in Denver for the premier of the theater adaptation of Haruf's novel Plainsong and a gallery opening for Brown's photographs. West of Last Chance is their award-winning collaboration, mingling Brown's photos of the Great Plains with Kent Haruf's [...]
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    Posted: March 07, 2008, 6:00am EST

  • Tester, Take the Lead on Mining Law

    Last November, I wrote about mining law reform being a no brainer and that the U.S. House of Representatives had just passed a bill spiking the most uncivilized sections of the 135-year-old law. The House bill ends the archaic policy of giving way our public land to mining conglomerates with [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2008, 6:20am EST

  • Desert Solitude: Amy Irvine's "Trespass"

    Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land By Amy Irvine North Point Press 361 pages, $25 Utah native Amy Irvine's first book Trespass: Living At The Edge of The Promised Land is an unusual hybrid that combines memoir, natural history, Western history, anthropology, and an examination of the Mormon religion. Irvine, who [...]
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    Posted: February 29, 2008, 9:00am EST

  • Desert Solitude: Amy Irvine's "Trespass"

    Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land By Amy Irvine North Point Press 361 pages, $25 Utah native Amy Irvine's first book Trespass: Living At The Edge of The Promised Land is an unusual hybrid that combines memoir, natural history, Western history, anthropology, and an examination of the Mormon religion. Irvine, who [...]
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    Posted: February 29, 2008, 6:00am EST

  • Coming Soon to a State Near You, Giant German Shepherd Hunting

    This week, thirteen years since reintroduction into the northern Rockies, the federal government says the Big Dog, the wolf, is no longer an endangered species, which means the state wildlife agencies take over wolf management. The state agencies are already in the starting blocks to give us something we've never, [...]
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    Posted: February 28, 2008, 5:00am EST

  • More Guns in National Parks

    You've probably heard about pending legislation to allow visitors to our national parks to carry loaded and accessible firearms. The cover story is the concern that people must be able to protect their families from perverts and wild animals infesting out national parks. To this overused assertion, I must ask [...]
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    Posted: February 21, 2008, 8:08am EST

  • Let Bowhunters Solve "Deer Problem"

    In January, I posted a column about the most expensive deer in the world, which happen to be running around my house in Helena, Montana. I concluded, conservatively, that killing these deer might cost $2,000 or more per animal. Out of the comment section came the question: What would be [...]
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    Posted: February 14, 2008, 3:38am EST

  • Let Bowhunters Solve "Deer Problem"

    In January, I posted a column about the most expensive deer in the world, which happen to be running around my house in Helena, Montana. I concluded, conservatively, that killing these deer might cost $2,000 or more per animal. Out of the comment section came the question: What would be [...]
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    Posted: February 14, 2008, 3:38am EST

  • Northwestern to Expand Big Sky Transmission Line; Western Energy Corridor Comment Deadline Nears

    Resort communities require a lot of kilowatts, and bustling Big Sky, Montana is no exception to this rule; between 1996 and 2005 there were 660 new residential units built in Big Sky -- a dramatic 8.2 percent increase. And this does not include the Moonlight Basin and Yellowstone Club ski [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2008, 10:43am EST

  • Energy Expansion Across the West

    Resort communities require a lot of kilowatts, and bustling Big Sky, Montana is no exception to this rule; between 1996 and 2005 there were 660 new residential units built in Big Sky -- a dramatic 8.2 percent increase. And this does not include the Moonlight Basin and Yellowstone Club ski [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2008, 10:43am EST

  • Bowhunting Helena

    All across the nation, bowhunters help cities control urban deer herds, but whenever the subject comes up, it's followed by a lot of questions on safety, costs, legalities and logistics. To answer some of these questions, I browsed the web for a few hours and then called three cities that [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2008, 8:50am EST

  • Bowhunting Helena

    All across the nation, bowhunters help cities control urban deer herds, but whenever the subject comes up, it's followed by a lot of questions on safety, costs, legalities and logistics. To answer some of these questions, I browsed the web for a few hours and then called three cities that [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2008, 6:50am EST

  • A New Magazine: The New West

    Driving past most any Western city these days is a little like watching those time-lapse films back in grade school. Empty fields become bulldozed lots become framed houses become finished homes with trucks in the driveway and new grass in the yard. It's a time of dramatic change in the [...]
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    Posted: February 01, 2008, 2:53pm EST

  • A New Magazine: The New West

    Driving past most any Western city these days is a little like watching those time-lapse films back in grade school. Empty fields become bulldozed lots become framed houses become finished homes with trucks in the driveway and new grass in the yard. It's a time of dramatic change in the [...]
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    Posted: February 01, 2008, 2:53pm EST

  • Cabela's Still Fishing on Thin Ice

    Yesterday, I had another chat with Mike Callahan, Cabela's Senior Vice President, concerning the company's controversial ancillary business, Cabela's Trophy Properties (CTP). As you can see in the resulting article, Callahan certainly has been open and sincere in his belief that Cabela's is not doing anything wrong and can actually [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2008, 9:03am EST
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