What do you do when reality is too much to handle? Geddes woke up in a strange room. It was clearly a motel room. There were two beds, a TV, a bathroom done up in tile and fixtures from the…
Grippo: Blackout on the Open Road …by Paul Vlachos
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ZEPHYR AMERICA: Durango to Silverton by Train with Herb Ringer
Our regular readers know that we began a new project at the Zephyr in the past year–called “Zephyr America.” We’ve been slowly wading through the massive Zephyr archives of historic photos and digitizing them to share with our readers. To…
THE OPEN ROAD: Coffee…Words and Photos by Paul Vlachos
I’m writing this while drinking coffee. It’s in a big, old fashioned mug – brown glazed with a tiny chip on the handle – from the Hull Company. I found it second-hand in old Greenwich Village at a place that…
ON HERB RINGER’S TRAIL: RETURN TO RHYOLITE & BEATTY, NV …by Jim Stiles
In the months after Herb Ringer’s 1941 move to Reno from New Jersey, he set out to explore the barren deserts nearby. Even before the war, much of the American West was relatively empty, and towns in the Great Basin…
Down Glen Canyon with Georgia O’Keeffe & Eliot Porter …by Gene M Stevenson
The following excerpt is from the book: CANYON COUNTRY EXPLORATIONS & RIVER LORE: The Remarkable Resilient Life of Kenny Ross, by Gene M. Stevenson. The book was written about Kenny Ross, one of the forgotten personalities on the Colorado Plateau…
THE OPEN ROAD: Shots From the Lost World… Words and Photos by Paul Vlachos
“The world has gone mad today And good’s bad today, And black’s white today, And day’s night today, And that gent today You gave a cent today Once had several chateaux.” I sometimes think of happier times. What is “happy,”…
Introducing “ZEPHYR AMERICA: A Lens on the Past”!
Over the past three decades, The Canyon Country Zephyr has published some of the best writing, photography and history of the American West … And politics, from time to time. Now we’re taking a break from politics, as we all…
THE OPEN ROAD: Where Do I Want to Live, Part 2 …Words and Photos by Paul Vlachos
I’m going to bribe myself to finish this now, so that I can stop beating myself up for NOT finishing it. I don’t know if most people have to work that way, but sometimes that’s what it takes. If I…
ON HERB RINGER’S TRAIL IN NEVADA (Volume 2): Goldfield and Tonopah (Plus Old Station, CA) … by Tonya Stiles
This past Fall, Jim and I took a trip out to Herb Ringer country. We wanted to return to a few of the spots in Nevada and California that held particular importance for Herb, and see how those places had…
ON HERB RINGER’S TRAIL IN NEVADA: Volume 1… by Jim Stiles
For those of you who have been regular Zephyr readers for years, I don’t need to introduce Herb Ringer to you. Herb’s brilliant, historic photographs of the American West have been a regular feature in The Zephyr for almost as…