Terry Tempest Williams, Author at High Country News https://www.hcn.org A nonprofit independent magazine of unblinking journalism that shines a light on all of the complexities of the West. Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:42:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2-32x32.png Terry Tempest Williams, Author at High Country News https://www.hcn.org 32 32 229054741 Reflections on Barry Lopez https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-4/reflections-on-barry-lopez/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 08:01:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/?p=323687 Cache la Poudre River, Colorado, from the series Stillwater. Gelatin silver print, 2000.

Terry Tempest Williams contemplates her friendship with the late author and what he left behind.

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]]> 323687 Witness to the Cold War in the desert https://www.hcn.org/issues/54-6/photos-we-were-bombing-ourselves-for-years/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2022/06/01/witness-to-the-cold-war-in-the-desert/

Terry Tempest Williams on Emmet Gowin’s unflinching photos of the Nevada Test Site.

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]]> 121665 Terry Tempest Williams and the refuge of change https://www.hcn.org/issues/48-19/the-long-view/ Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2016/11/14/terry-tempest-williams-and-the-refuge-of-change/

One of the West’s most beloved authors revisits Great Salt Lake.

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]]> 118452 “A history of subversion”: An excerpt from Terry Tempest Williams’ latest book https://www.hcn.org/issues/48-9/a-history-of-subversion-an-excerpt-from-terry-tempest-williams-latest-book/ Mon, 30 May 2016 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2016/05/30/a-history-of-subversion-an-excerpt-from-terry-tempest-williams-latest-book/

“César E. Chávez National Monument” from The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks.

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]]> 118680 Washing our hands https://www.hcn.org/issues/issue-319/washing-our-hands/ Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2006/04/03/washing-our-hands/

I met Interior Secretary Gale Norton in the public restroom at Denver International Airport. She was coming out of the handicapped stall with a black roller bag. She is a tall, handsome woman. We ended up washing our hands at neighboring basins. Should I, or shouldn’t I? I did. “Secretary Norton — ” “Yes?” she […]

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]]> 112026 Seeing the legacy of Interior Secretary Gale Norton https://www.hcn.org/wotr/seeing-the-legacy-of-interior-secretary-galenorton/ Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2006/03/20/seeing-the-legacy-of-interior-secretary-galenorton/ I met Gale Norton, who has announced her resignation as Interior Secretary, in the public restroom at the Denver International Airport. She was coming out of the handicapped stall with a black roller bag. She is a tall, handsome woman. We ended up washing our hands at neighboring basins. Should I or shouldn’t I? I […]

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]]> 124584 Engagement in a time of terror https://www.hcn.org/issues/issue-246/engagement-in-a-time-of-terror/ Mon, 17 Mar 2003 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2003/03/17/engagement-in-a-time-of-terror/

Who do we believe? How do we behave? These are questions I hold as we watch President Bush make his case for war. Our Department of Homeland Security recently placed us on “high alert/code orange,” advised us to buy duct tape and cover our windows with plastic, then in the same breath told us not […]

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]]> 109310 A lesson in engagement from Mary Page Stegner https://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-lesson-in-engagement-from-mary-page-stegner/ Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2003/02/17/a-lesson-in-engagement-from-mary-page-stegner/ Who do we believe? How do we behave? These are questions I hold as we watch President Bush make his case for war. Our Department of Homeland Security recently placed us on “high alert/code orange,” advised us to buy duct tape and cover our windows with plastic, then in the same breath told us not […]

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]]> 124066 Hearing stories, finding family, returning home https://www.hcn.org/issues/issue-61/hearing-stories-finding-family-returning-home/ Mon, 10 Jun 1996 06:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/1996/06/10/hearing-stories-finding-family-returning-home/

It was May 23, 1974, when I knocked on David Raskin’s door at the Behavioral Science Building at the University of Utah. The only thing I knew about him was that he was one of the world’s leading experts on polygraph machines and that he had given Patty Hearst the lie detector test after she […]

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]]> 122214 The Mormon heritage is not what you think https://www.hcn.org/issues/issue-83/the-mormon-heritage-is-not-what-you-think/ Mon, 29 Nov 1993 17:15:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/1993/11/29/the-mormon-heritage-is-not-what-you-think/ Terry Tempest Williams and Thomas J. Lyon remind Sens. Orin Hatch and Robert Bennett that their Mormon ancestors would advocate grazing reform. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The Mormon heritage is not what you think.

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