What Gary Snyder brought to the Beat Generation of the mid-1950s and early 1960s he has augmented, reinforced, and intensified for the literary culture of the 1970s and 1980s. From his outset as a poet in the 1950s, Snyder's identification with the natur...

As Wendell Berry writes in his contribution to Gary Snyder: Dimensions of a Life (1991), "One thing that distinguishes Gary Snyder among his literary contemporaries is his willingness to address himself, in his life and in his work, to hard practical que...

Gary Snyder is one of the most important American poets of the second half of the twentieth century. He has written with eloquence, intellectual power, and mythopoeic grandeur in celebration and defense of the natural world. In his With Eye and Ear (1970...

Nothing could have prepared Richard Wetherill for that wintry day in 1888 when he and his brother-in-law left home in search of some lost cattle. Clambering to the top of a large flat rock, he hoped to see the missing cows. Instead, an...

Leaving the pits behind The Anasazi Indians, who lived from about A.D. 450 to 1300 in what is now the southwestern United States, were a mobile people who occupied distinctive pit dwellings for a few as 10 or 15 years before moving...

What hotel would you stay in if money were no object? Robb Report, a magazine about luxury lifestyles, has just inaugurated an annual guide _ on newsstands this fall _ to "Luxury Hotels: The World's Ultimate City Escapes." ...

You can't drive around on your own in this canyon, or hike where you please. And you should ask permission before taking pictures of the Navajo Indians who still live and farm here. ...