This is the grave of Phil Sheridan. Born in 1831 in Albany, New York, Sheridan's family moved to Ohio when he was young. He was a very lucky young man. He worked as a bookkeeper as a teenager but got to know his local congressman,...
American West
This is the grave of Henry McCarty, aka, William Bonney, aka, Billy the Kid. Billy the Kid was a murderous thug who achieved the Old West fame that eastern urban.
Above: Drill, Baby, Drill! In the midst of Trump's word diarrhea yesterday around everything from NAFTA (I feel like I should write about this but of course Trump doesn't even.
This is the grave of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody Born in 1846 in frontier Iowa, the family moved to Kansas in 1853, where Cody's father became involved in the Bleeding Kansas conflict, on the side of the abolitionists. He gave a speech and then...
This is the grave of Virgil Earp. Born in 1843 in Hartford, Kentucky, Earp joined the Union army in 1863, serving with the 83rd Illinois Infantry. He was married at.
For most of you, the issue of western public lands is probably not as important as the other horrors that is the Republican policy agenda. But for a westerner, this.
Exhibit A: Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five of their followers, charged in the armed takeover of a federally owned Oregon wildlife sanctuary in January, were acquitted Thursday of federal conspiracy and weapons charges. The verdict brings to a close a case that gripped the...
I know the law job market is horrible, but I always felt that going into water law in the West was a pretty much limitless market, given the brutal battles.
What would happen if the dreams of Cliven Bundy and his clan came true and the federal government sold off all its public lands in the West to the highest.
While the Bundy boys and their band of idiots are mostly in jail or have left the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, there are still a few diehards holed up in there. I do worry about these people committing acts of violence, on their own and...
This is a really outstanding investigation into how California and thus federal water politics work. That agribusiness would create a Latino front group with the message that not delivering more.
Did everyone enjoy wearing shorts and t-shirts in the Northeast on Christmas Eve yesterday? Yeah, that's just great. Of course, such freakish temperatures are not entirely about climate change--El Niño.