David Hammett, a former Pinkerton strikebreaker-turned-writer, modeled the fictional town of Poisonville on Butte, calling it an “ugly city of forty thousand people set in an ugly notch between two ...

Some of the jobs roped into the American Climate Corps have funding locked down for much of Trump’s term. Zampaglione’s program, the Forest Corps, has $15 million in funding from the U.S. Forest ...

Katie Myers is a writer and audio producer in east Tennessee. She works as a reporter for Grist and Blue Ridge Public Radio. Sign up to receive High Country News ’ email newsletters and get ...