Category: February/March 2014

Vlachos’ Views…Photos and Captions by Paul Vlachos

Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… 1. Texas, just off the Interstate, in 2009. I’m always hauling ass…

The Wilder West: Will Rogers…Art by Dave Wilder

Dave Wilder’s art can be seen at: http://www.wilderarts.com and at the Laughing Raven Gallery     417 Hull Ave. Jerome, Arizona and on Facebook:   “David Wilder Arts”     To read the PDF version of this article, click here. To comment…

The Bulletin Board of Doom!

The energy boom is upending a lot of old assumptions about the viability of U.S. manufacturing, and it’s as key to American success as the invention of the Internet, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told CNBC on Wednesday. “Cheap energy—the revolution…

Herb Ringer’s American West: TRAVELING THE WEST IN THE WOODY, 1954

Cooke City, Montana Trail Ridge Highway, Rocky Mountain NP. The mountains near the northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park. Herb’s dad walking the cat. Trail Ridge summit. To see the PDF version of this page, click here. To comment on…

Pointblank: On desert water rights, the relevance of literary traditions to interspecies relations, and the Disney Weltanschauung…by Patricia (Toni) McConnel

Millions of years ago, according to one theory (mine), the mammoth child of some now extinct race of giants spilled globs of wet sandstone clay, red as rusted iron, on the Nevada desert in what is now known as the…