Many thought of the West as a social safety valve ... She lamented the closing of the wilderness, not because it was detrimental to American society, but because it ended a distinct Native ...

Visit these underrated national parks across the American West from Washington to Texas and enjoy fewer crowds and ...

Eventually, the photographer Bryan Schutmaat told me, the strip malls fade into the rearview mirror, the landscape opens, and the American West begins ... taming the wilderness, but of the ...

The roar of the grizzly, war cries of the Blackfeet, and the lonesome song of the wind ushered 18-year-old Joe Meek to a ...