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Herb Ringer’s American West: Winters in the West, 1940′s

Winters in the West 1940′s Reno, Nevada. The snowy Nevada desert. Mt Rose Summit Herb’s father tosses his hat at Mt Rose Summit. To read the PDF version of this article, click here. Don’t forget the...

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A Last Look at the “Pre-Elevated Bikeway RIVER ROAD” (State Route 128)…by Jim...

A Last Look at the “Pre-Elevated Bikeway RIVER ROAD” (State Route 128) Construction on the $9 million Moab Hub & Elevated River Bikeway began last month. Here are some photographs we shot of those...

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Losing Solitude: Two Arts…by Martin Murie

  Yesterday I happened to be looking through the open back doorway of the cabin. A housefly’s flight came to an abrupt stop and there came the barn spider on its invisible line. Reaching the fly, the...

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Portraits of Moab…1988-1993, #5…by Jim Stiles

In the late 80s and early 90s, I was taking a lot of pictures of Moab’s ‘survivors.’ the ones who decided to tough out the hard times and make a new life. Here is Part 5 of my collection of Great Moab...

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“Oh for an unbridgeable abyss or an insuperable mountain”…by Henry James

You touch the great lonely land, only to plant upon it some ugliness about which, never dreaming of the grace of apology or contrition, you then proceed to brag with a cynicism of your own. …and I...

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Last Float Down Glen Canyon:Sept/Oct 1962, Part 4: Harry and Dottie Get...

Edna Fridley was a good friend of the canyon country of southeast Utah for more than 30 years. Every year she returned to the slickrock from her home, back east, to wander and explore what was then one...

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On the Slow, Gurgling Death of Recreational Solitude…by Scott Thompson

Every March I’d drive west from the Roaring Fork Valley in Colorado, up to the massive Island in the Sky in Canyonlands National Park. Driving up there on Utah 313 I felt like a fly climbing a whale’s...

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Sowing Clover: The Last Undecided Voter…by Tonya Stiles

  The election ended weeks ago, and I must be the only voter in America who could still call herself “undecided.” I may not look it. To judge by the voting patterns of most of my family and friends,...

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Take it or Leave it: Winter Camping…by Jim Stiles

  “HE WHO LEARNS MUST SUFFER…” My Sorrowful History of Winter Camping & the Pursuit of Warmth   “He who learns must suffer…”  —Aeschylus Ever since humans shed their fur and felt the warmth of a...

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The December/January Issue of the Zephyr!

  TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT   Jim Stiles “He who learns must suffer”  My Sorrowful History of Winter Camping & the Pursuit of Warmth SOWING CLOVER   Tonya Audyn Stiles ‘The Last Undecided Voter’ THE...

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The Wilder West: “Home on the Range for XMAS”…Original Art by Dave Wilder

Home on the Range for Xmas…   and Wilder’s homage to Abbey and O’Keefe:     Dave Wilder’s art can be seen at: http://www.wilderarts.com and at the Laughing Raven Gallery     417 Hull Ave. Jerome,...

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Why I REALLY Never Became a Mormon, Part 2…by Jim Stiles

The 17 Verses… NOTE & CAUTION!  This story was previously published in the San Juan Record in Monticello, Utah, where the population is about 90% Mormon.  My tale of woe was taken in good humor by...

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A Last Look at the “Pre-Elevated Bikeway RIVER ROAD” (State Route 128)…by Jim...

A Last Look at the “Pre-Elevated Bikeway RIVER ROAD” (State Route 128)Construction on the $9 million Moab Hub & Elevated River Bikeway began last month.Here are some photographs we shot of those...

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“Oh for an unbridgeable abyss or an insuperable mountain”…by Henry James

You touch the great lonely land,only to plant upon it some uglinessabout which, never dreaming of the graceof apology or contrition,you then proceed to brag witha cynicism of your own.…and I should...

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Sowing Clover: The Last Undecided Voter…by Tonya Morton

  The election ended weeks ago, and I must be the only voter in America who could still call herself “undecided.” I may not look it. To judge by the voting patterns of most of my family and friends,...

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