The Land of the Unbelievable The dust of the Kansas prairie kicked up in choking, grey plumes behind the transport truck, coating the olive-drab canvas in a fine layer of...
The Endless Horizon The sirens that erupted across America on August 15, 1945, did not sound like victory to everyone. In New York and Chicago, they signaled the end of...
The Day the World Turned Upside Down On September 8th, 1943, Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allied forces, and the world for thousands of Italian soldiers and citizens turned completely...
The Whispering Pews of Maple Street The small Lutheran church on Maple Street in Cedar Falls, Iowa, had stood for seventy years, its stained-glass windows weathering the brutal Midwestern winters...
The Arrival on Main Street The dust of late summer hung heavy over Gley, Colorado, coating the leaves of the cottonwoods in a fine, gray powder. September 12, 1943, began...
Shadows in the High Grass The first time Thomas Miller stepped into the enclosure without a heavy chain-link barrier separating him from the pups, he expected what any veteran handler...
The Weight of Fourteen The air at the northern entrance of Yellowstone National Park does not yield easily to the coming of spring, but on January 12, 1995, the cold...
A little before dawn, on a crisp morning in the early 2000s, a Canadian landscape architect named George Stockton stood on the floor of a dry valley running through the...
Chapter 1: The Last Fence Line The desert does not negotiate. If you drive out past the modern strip malls of Phoenix or Tucson, past the neat grids of irrigated...
The air in the agricultural flats of Brandenburg does not move easily in May. It settles over the drainage ditches, heavy with the scent of wet rye and the bitter,...