Category Archives: The West

Wind River Mountains 1998

April 5, 2013 – 9:48 am

In the Spring of 1998 my 78 year-old father and I were on a road trip through Wyoming and Montana. We picked up a rented car in Bozeman, Montana and stopped the first night in Chico Hot Springs. The next morning the two of us continued down Paradise Valley to Yellowstone Park. Buffalos grazed the [...]

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Tough As Porter Rockwell

October 20, 2012 – 12:33 pm

My father claimed that Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormons, was a distant relative on his father’s side of the family. My aunt has backed up this assertion, saying that our line remained in Maine, while the prophet’s clan drifted from the mountains in Vermont to the religiously burned-over lands of Western New York. [...]

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LOOKALIKE by Peter Nolan Smith

July 19, 2012 – 10:52 am

A bridge spanned the flooded Mississippi and the Torino climbed a steep bluff into Iowa, speeding past heavily-loaded semi-trailers heading west. Our car was the only passenger vehicle on the highway. The rest were long-hauling trucks. The station wagon’s headlights lit up the dotted lines separating the two lanes. One came right after the other [...]

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Burning Season

June 27, 2012 – 7:27 pm

Baptists ministers are adept at preaching fire and brimstone. Colorado Springs residents are getting a taste of Hell on Earth at an enormous fire burns out of control along Route 24. Police have evacuated the city and the governor has admitted that the city is at the mercy of the nature. “There is nothing firefighters [...]

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Isn’t That John Waters

June 8, 2012 – 5:46 pm

BACK AND FORTH my novel about hitchhiking cross-country is on the verge of completion. Two more segments will about my writing THE END on the last page. I’ve been trying to finish those two stories for most of April and May, but like a Texan two-laner the books keeps stretching toward an ever-distant horizon. Throughout [...]

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