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Clinging Hopelessly to the Maps: 1941 Conoco “Touraide” Travel Guide
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Herb Ringer’s American West: Reno & Fallon, Nevada, 1944 & 2013
DOWNTOWN RENO, 1944 & 2013 (present day ‘reality’ courtesy of Google street view) Fallon, NV HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West, from the Canadian Border…
From Tom Till “Then & Now”…Castle Gate & Split Mountain
The Zephyr is honored to present selected images from TOM TILL’s remarkable book, “Then & Now.” Castle Gate, Utah (Click the caption text to enlarge.) Split Mountain Visit Tom Till’s Website. To see the PDF version of this…
(From the Zephyr Archives) Losing Solitude: MOUNTAIN RANGERS AT JACKSON HOLE…by Martin Murie
Note: This article first appeared in the February/March 2006 edition of the Zephyr. At the crest of Teton Pass there used to be a big wooden sign with a black silhouette of a big-hatted cowboy pointing east into the valley.…
The October/November Issue of the Zephyr!
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Return to Abajo Peak. An Autumn’s View’‘ Searching for Solitude at the Summit‘ SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles ‘Cheap Lives in a Sacred Economy W I N D O W S A c r o s…
Take it or Leave it: RETURN TO ABAJO PEAK, AN AUTUMN’S VIEW…by Jim Stiles
In the blink of an eye, summer has left us. The maples are turning red below South Peak, the aspens are on the cusp. The mornings are cold and crisp. The most poignant and melancholy and lovely time of the…
Sowing Clover: Cheap Lives in a Sacred Economy…by Tonya Morton
It’s a cliché to say that every object has a story. But, when you’re a consummate thrift store and flea market browser, as Jim and I are, the truth is that each of our belongings probably has three or four…
Take it or Leave it: Searching for Silence on the Summit…by Jim Stiles
I made my 28th trip to the top of a nearby mountain last month. But who’s counting? I hadn’t missed a year since 1985, and then my own procrastinations and an early snow storm stymied my efforts to make the…
Sanitizing the Truth: How BIKE Magazine Butchered an Honest Tale of Moab’s Last 20 Years…by Jim Stiles
I am in most ways an un-ambitious writer. Even downright lazy. While I’ve contributed to other magazines and periodicals over the years, and finally threw a book together in 2007, I confine most of my scribbling to The Zephyr. Recently,…
“Oh, for an Insuperable Moab…” by Jim Stiles
NOTE: Bolded passages are those cut out of the final BIKE magazine article. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests…when Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, what room will…