I love to get out and see the beautiful views in San Juan County. I grew up here and I had the perfect growing up life. We lived on the east side of town. I’d get with my boy friends…
The Dying Junipers of San Juan County, Utah, 2018…by Kay Shumway
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Herb Ringer’s American West: A Close Encounter in a Ghost Town–Herb Ringer in Ludwig, Nevada…1942
Herb: One morning I took off from Reno to explore an old ghost town called Ludwig, near Yerington. While hunting through an old station, I heard a car motor wheezing over the rough steep hill, and hitching my gun forward,…
January 1931: The Strenuous Life…by Harvey Leake
…the highest form of success… comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate…
DO WE REALLY NEED WILDERNESS? It depends on your definition…by Loch Wade
“There’s cracks,” Del is saying, “up on the Smoky, that’re so deep, you can drop a rock down in ‘em, and you can’t hear the first bounce for ten, maybe twelve seconds. There’s smoke comin’ out of ‘em…Those coal seam’s…
The Zephyr Wilderness Plan, updated and revised…by Jim Stiles
Note: The original version of this story appeared in the June 1991 Zephyr. For decades, since the Wilderness Act was passed by Congress in 1964, citizens of this nation have waged war with each other over the need for wilderness…
A Close Encounter in a Ghost Town: Herb Ringer in Ludwig, Nevada…1942
(click each photo to enlarge) Herb: One morning I took off from Reno to explore an old ghost town called Ludwig, near Yerington. While hunting through an old station, I heard a car motor wheezing over the rough steep hill,…