Monday, February 28, 2011

Judy Blunt, Breaking Clean

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Montana Week at BITS begins with Judy Blunt's memoir of her early life in Montana ranch country. Hers is a far cry from Willa Cather...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

Photo-finish Friday: wind farm

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Anyone traveling along I-10 from LA to the Coachella Valley in Riverside County is greeted by a rolling sea of these giant wind turbines co...
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Thomas McGuane, Some Horses

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Here's a sample of what's coming up starting Monday - Montana Week. I'll be posting reviews of five nonfiction books by Montana ...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Charles Lummis, A Tramp Across the Continent (1892)

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My first cross-country trip from the Midwest to Los Angeles was on a passenger jet that took me to LAX. It was 1964. Only eighty years earli...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Martha Sandweiss, Print the Legend

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Anybody who knows John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance knows the origin of this book’s title. And it’s a good choice for an informa...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

Old West glossary, no. 9

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Montana cowboys, c1910 Here’s another set of frontier terms garnered from early western writing. Definitions were discovered in various o...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

Photo-finish Friday: Waiting for the rain

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West Los Angeles, 18 February 2011, 11:00 am As the song goes, it never rains in California . . . It pours, man, it pours. I'm waiti...
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