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Jan 17, 2025: Important delivery in the mailbag today.
Jan 16, 2025: Doing a bit of writing this morning on western water policy in the nineteenth century. Been a while since I’ve thought about this history, and it …
Jan 15, 2025: First change to the Farmall: replacing the straight pipe with a muffler. It sounds great.
Jan 13, 2025: The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a bid from the state of Utah to seize control of federally-owned lands. The court denied the state’s …
Jan 8, 2025: The [Supreme Court] is expected to decide whether to take up the matter in mid-January. Should it agree to consider the case and side with Utah, tens …
Dec 28, 2024: Steven Conn’s book is a tremendously good synthesis history of rural America.
Dec 20, 2024: I don’t come up often, but I appreciate our barn’s old hayloft. Some of the original loft equipment remains, too. Currently, it’s mostly a sanctuary …
Dec 19, 2024: It went from outdoor sweater weather to “where’s my Carhartt” real fast this afternoon.
Dec 19, 2024: Finally got my reupholstered reading chair back and situated in the study. Nice to have it in good shape again.
Nov 27, 2024: The Rebellion Lives The Sagebrush Rebellion lives on: The state is asking the justices to declare that the federal government’s ownership of millions of acres of …
Nov 3, 2024: The Return of the Prairie Populists In 1892, the People’s Party gathered in Omaha to declare within their first platform that “we have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the …
Nov 2, 2024: Wendell Berry in The Unsettling of America: Whereas the exploiter asks of a piece of land only how much and how quickly it can be made to produce, …
Oct 15, 2024: Unearthing the 20th Century’s Ground-Breaking Soil Surveys
Oct 12, 2024: The Legacies of the Bundyville Stand-off Leah Sottile, host of the fantastic Bundyville podcast and contributor to High Country News, writes on the continuing legacy of the Bundyville …
Oct 11, 2024: Goals For reasons not entirely sorted in my own mind, I’ve decided to start a new writing space on the web. I have my long-standing blog at my website …