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American Cowboys

I have known cowboys broken in body and twisted in spirit, bruised by debt, failure, loneliness, disease, and most of the other afflictions of man, but I have seldom known…

In The Hollow

by Chris Offutt,

The changing face of Appalachia—and its role in the presidential race

Natural light

by Edward Hoagland,

Life among Vermont's hippies, hunters, bears, and moose

Country matters

by Hayden Carruth,

Black huckleberries

by Henry David Thoreau,

My countryside, then and now

by Malcolm Cowley,

A study in American evolution

A discouraging word

by Harper’s Staff,

On not thinking about nature

by Charles Simic,

A season of portents

by Gretel Ehrlich,

The long summer of '88

Old Roses and Birdsong

On the senses of summer

The tumbling of worms

by Stanley Kunitz,