A few weeks ago, I submitted a shorter version of an article we posted in The Zephyr called “The New West’s Big Lie” to the environmental newspaper, High Country News. Though “The Big Lie” was in direct response to a…
EDITOR’S NOTE: In 1985, two great artists, writer Edward Abbey and cartoonist R. Crumb met in Moab, Utah to promote a new edition of Abbey’s classic novel, ‘The Monkey Wrench Gang,’ with Crumb’s brilliant and unique illustrations. On the afternoon…
HARRY’S WEDDING AND THE BERT LOPER WHISKY The year 1962 was a momentous one. It was the year that Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr. orbited the earth three times and exclaimed, “Oh, that view is tremendous.” It was the…
EDITORS NOTE: Last year, the enormous Memorial Day crowds trying to visit Arches National Park finally ovewrwhelmed the place. Parking at the Devils Garden and at Delicate Arch overflowed—there was literally no place to park. Lines of vehicles outside the…
Editor’s Note: This article, originally published in 1995, was written in response to a U.S. District Court ruling on Pelt v. Utah, which stated that the members of the Navajo Nation could not sue the state of Utah for mismanaging…
(From the 1995 Zephyr archives) Years ago, when Hardy Redd, my neighbor friend across the mountain, told me that the Mormon historian Leonard J. Arrington was to write a biography of Hardy’s father, the legendary Charlie Redd, I was quite…
From the Zephyr Archives… In the 21st century, it is ludicrous…indeed, quite tragic, to have to defend the actions taken by Congress on August 25, 1916 when it established the National Park System. The American people purposely, in the creation…
I had taken many trips down the Colorado River through Glen Canyon, and I found many priceless experiences. But as 1963 approached, at 34 years of age, the dam’s effects thrust my mind into an upsetting quandary. That year the…
Once again I reminisce and search my memory of past years and lay down a few meandering thoughts. The eventful Sixties surely stand out in my mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s book Nature became the bible of his own era’s Cultural…
At twenty-one years of age, in 1950, I went through a hellish year, as national and international events seemed to pull me into areas in which I had little control. Distractions were many. Continuous war talk left my mind immobilized,…