Herb Ringer’s American West: Cameron Trading Post, Arizona and The Bright...
The Bright Angel Lodge, Grand Canyon 1950 2014 Cameron Trading Post, Arizona 1950 2014 HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West,...
View ArticlePointblank: Was, with Apologies to Mister Faulkner…by Damon Falke
It should be difficult for any of us to write about where we grew-up, to write about where we call home, or where we once called home. There are the expected trappings of sentiment and the near...
View ArticleVlachos’ 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… Most of the photos included in this issue – and I’m...
View ArticleNow it’s Official: a Normal Planet is Politically Incorrect… By Scott Thompson
“What would be a normal planet would have a lot fewer people and lots more animals, and what we have now is an irregular, abnormal, and dangerous condition.” – Gary Snyder, 2010 In a way this story...
View ArticleA Review: Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The...
Klein, Naomi (2014-09-16). This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. “[B]ottom line[:] our economic system and our planetary system are now at war....
View Article‘Jack Burns: An Abbey Fictional Character From Two Dimensions’ …by Scott...
“We might expect a peculiar change in the mentality of the world in the next fifty to one hundred years.” – Carl Jung, 1929 I believe that Jack Burns, a character in several of Edward Abbey’s novels,...
View ArticleLonely are the Brave: Revisited…by Jim Stiles
NOTE: This is a story about the film ‘Lonely are the Brave,’ based on the book, ‘Brave Cowboy,’ by Edward Abbey and my efforts to find, in 2014, the original film locations from the 1961 production....
View ArticleSowing Clover: Living on Company Time…By Tonya Stiles
First, I couldn’t find my sunglasses. We were headed out the door. Jim was halfway to the car, and I suddenly realized I couldn’t find them. They weren’t on their normal perch with the car keys in the...
View ArticleTake it or Leave it: MY ‘ALMOST-FERGUSON’ MOMENT: Rangers Should ‘Range’ But...
PREFACE: The events in Ferguson, Missouri remind me of a moment in my own brief career in law enforcement, as a ranger with the National Park Service at Arches NP. I wrote this account in 2005, years...
View ArticleThe December/ January Issue of the Zephyr!
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Rangers Should Range–but Fear & Adrenalin Can Make Them Kill’ SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles Point Blank:‘Was’ with apologies to Mister Faulkner Damon Falke “Lonely...
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