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Spokane, my god.

Nectarine season!

Finished reading: Storycraft, Second Edition The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction by Jack Hart 📚

Finished reading: The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West by Amy Gamerman 📚

I never know what wildlife I’ll stumble across on our acreage.

I’ll likely finish this today, but my midway-through scribbled margin note of “everyone in this story is terrible except Monica” is still holding true. (It’s a great book, terrific writing. Gamerman does a great job enticing you along as the reader.)

Literally the first thing my writing group observed this morning.

Happy to be kicking off a virtual writing group this morning with my colleagues from the Under the Big Sky writer’s retreat earlier this summer. Very excited to keep this community going!

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Sean Connery: One Ping Only PleaseALT: Sean Connery: One Ping Only Pleasestatic.klipy.com

#AmWest

Racing some potential rain.

To my fellow moo cow historians, do I have the general timeline of the National Cattlemen's name changes right? (cc @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social)

An update to my little project Westward, with new institutions and public domain images numbering close to 4,000. (I believe it was @ayjay and his website Gospel of the Trees that he described as a “coffee table” website. Westward is that sort of thing.)

Westward — photographs of the American WestAn endless scroll of public-domain photographs of the American West — homesteading, ranching, and frontier life from open cultural-heritage collections.westward.jasonheppler.org

Is the Smithsonian website down for anybody else?

We could reuse some of his title templates. ROOSEVELT ROOSEVELT BEGINS ROOSEVELT RISES THE NEW DEAL

New little side project: Westward, an endless scroll of 1,000+ public-domain photographs of the American West from the Library of Congress, the Portal to Texas History, and SMU’s DeGolyer Library.

New on the @rrchnm.bsky.social blog: Graduate research assistant Shae Corey (www.shaecorey.com) draws on the American Religious Ecologies project for a zine as public history.

How To Make an Academic Zine for a Public AudienceZines offer academics a creative and accessible way to share research with broader audiences. This guide introduces the basics of creating an academic zine, from planning your content to designing an ...rrchnm.org

The heat and dewpoint are already no joke, I had to cut my outdoor work short today.

Here's a hot take: Is it even the West if there's no public lands?

I'm working on a new interactive map and it's never not striking to me how stark the dividing line is between the West and all its public lands and the rest of the nation.