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THE ENVIRONMENTAL SPECTATOR America’s Second-Best Idea Documentarian Ken Burns takes us on a lovely stroll through our national parks and their history. by Bill Croke Ken Burns must be...
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Don’t Go Hiking W Don’t Go Hiking W A mountain man’s search for a summer paradise. BY BILL CROKE IGH COUNTRY HIKERS” hikes are “led” affairs. As many as a half dozen people have taken...
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T he West certainly has a literary tradition, but its photographers and painters are at the heart of its culture. Stunning vistas translate to photograph, canvas, and celluloid better than to the...
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THE O`U,TDO°R SP CTATO by Bill Croke Prairie Goats Where the antelope play—and men try to shoot them. We found the Antelope extreemly shye and watchfull insomuch that we had been unable to get a...
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GREAT AMERICAN SALOONS by Bill Croke Irma, My Irma L ike the Wild West Show and everything else William F. Cody did, it was done on a grand scale and with other people's money. Throughout the...
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL by Bill Croke Greyhound to San Francisco B ack in the Golden Age of bus travel —the early 1970's — it cost a trifling $49 to ride a Greyhound from New York to San Francisco....
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THE MONTANA SPECTATOR by Bill Croke It's Hot Back in the car, I see that the hay and Another scorcher along the Rocky Mountain Front. wheat fields along the Teton River Road are prematurely...
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL by Bill Croke A Pilgrim's Progress R eading Christopher Caldwell's admirable piece on contemporary Ireland ("Mary Robinson's New Ireland," TAS, November 1997) brought back...
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by Bill Croke Chinook Winter Subzero cold is no match for a warm melting wind. 2 0 Cody, Wyoming T o write about the weather, you have to be where the weather's interesting, or preferably...
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"Asylum in Vermont: A Memoir" The deinstitutionalization movement from the 1960's sent hundreds of thousands of the mentally ill out onto the streets. Here are a few that stayed behind. IN 1986 I...
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Craig, Michael
THE ENVIRONMENTAL SPECTATOR: America's Second-Best Idea
(October 2009)
