Category Archives: National Park Service

The American founding of Oregon—in myth and fact

Posted on September 24, 2023 by Bennett Minton

The martyrdom of Marcus Whitman, like the nobility of the Lost Cause, was taught to American school children for a century. The thumbnail of the story: The doctor/preacher convinced a president to safeguard Oregon for the United States rather than … Continue reading →

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Standing agape in an undivided current

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Bennett Minton

Thoughts on Yosemite, from bikerben58.wordpress.com: The vision of Abraham Lincoln and John Muir

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A few days in southern Utah . . .

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Bennett Minton

. . . where a piece of the Trump administration’s environmental agenda is playing out, and where hordes of Americans (and foreigners) can’t get enough of the West. Fiery Furnace is a mind game

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