According to Austin Elliott, an Oxford geo-scientist who knows these sorts of things, the Wasatch Fault is the world’s best-studied normal fault. Thus, people like Elliot know quite a lot about the...
Everett Ruess is every romantic's favorite Utah legend—the idealistic young man—poet, artist, explorer—fell in love with the wild lands of the unsettled West, the high Sierras and the moonscapes of souther n...
he big moment had finally arrived. It was an auspiciously sunny day. The two locomotives—United Pacific’s No. 119 facing west and Central Pacific’s Jupiter facing east—were in place where miles of track...
The American West was built on blood, sweat and wheat. After the Homestead Act inspired the migration west, and after the consequences of early technology—drill sowing replacing broadcasting seeds, cradles taking the...
Donald Trump wasn't the first U.S. president to excuse a shameful act of racism. Besides Andrew Jackson (Native-American genocide) and Washington and Jefferson's slave ownership, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an order sending...
