All photos were taken using an iPhone. Becky Knouff has lived in Moab, Utah for the last 27 years. She is a third generation house painter following in the footsteps of her father, grandfather, uncles and brothers. She…
Sometimes a radical movement ignites a spark of passion that captures the public’s imagination. After awhile powerful people, assuming they have some foresight, come to recognize that in order to protect themselves the group must be granted a bona fide…
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… I am currently on the road and I don’t have access to…
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,…
As some of you no doubt know, Old Flocko’s ancestral home is French Lick, Mississippi, not too far from the Louisiana border, so I grew up with some acquaintance with things “voodoo.” However, I had never heard of this recipe…
A New Regular Feature, Updates from the Great Southwestern Artist: “His work is unique and strongly individualistic, though, at once indigenous to this land. For he has probed, with his cutting mind, beneath the deserts…
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HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West, from the Canadian Border to the Rio Grande and from the Big Sur coast to the High Plains. We believe…
He was known as an eternal optimist, a wanderer, dreamer and sometime impractical pioneer. His name was Sylvester Richardson. The west of the post-Civil War era was filled with ambitious men out to conquer the west, get out of the…
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 are the Brave”…revisited Based on Edward Abbey’s book, ‘Brave Cowboy,’ we…