This is a list of all my posts about the American West and Southwest. (As of November 2, 2016, this page is under construction and still being populated.)
Parks and wilderness areas
- Chaco Canyon: New Mexico’s ancient convention center
- Surprises out west: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
- Nature Nearby: Carlito Springs in Albuquerque
- El Morro National Monument
- The Mineral Maketh the Monument
- NM public lands: San Lorenzo Canyon
- Monument Valley
People and Places
- Exploring New Mexican Names: Mount Taylor
- Western Ghost Towns: St. Elmo, Colorado and Chloride, New Mexico
- Luminarias in New Mexico
Native Cultures—modern and ancient
History
Art, Photography and Personal Projects
- Western Skies: sunsets
- Western skies: Lenticular clouds
- The Art of the Park
- One year a New Mexican
- New Mexican travel post cards
- Western Survivors
Western writing
- Science fiction worlds and the ancient west
- Book review: Cadillac Desert (Marc Reisner 1993) (Nonfiction)
- Bacigalupi’s “Water Knife” revisited: Considering “Cadillac Desert” and “Collapse”
- Book review: The Six-Gun Tarot (R.S. Belcher 2013) (Fiction)
- Book Review: The Water Knife (Paolo Bacigalupi 2015) (Fiction)
- Book Review: Forty-Seventh Star: New Mexico’s Struggle for Statehood (Nonfiction)
- Science Fiction and the West: Part 1
- Science Fiction and the West: Part 2