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When the U.S. West was a Place to Find Health

By Alex Jay Kimmelman | December 15th, 2009 | Category: Issue 6, Lead Story | No Comments »

When Josiah Gregg and a company headed southwest on the Santa Fe trail in 1831, the young man was confined to lie prone in the bed of a Dearborn wagon. He suffered from chronic dyspepsia and tuberculosis, and western travel was proscribed for his condition. This therapy proved to be highly successful. [...]


Breakfast: December 2007

By Hope Miller | December 15th, 2009 | Category: Issue 6, On Creative Life | No Comments »

The furniture was gone. And only the promise of empty space stared back at me. It was the promise of empty space that had beckoned me to Utah six and a half years earlier. The naked sky offered me the possibility to do anything and be anyone, and the silent mountain sentinels assented to shield [...]