This is the native home of hope,” Wallace Stegner wrote of…

I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I think that…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that in the…

— Philip Anschutz

I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and what that…

— Terry Tempest Williams

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of the agricultural…

— Charles Edwin Winter

The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which…

— Ronald Reagan

The mountain glaciers in every region of the world are melting, many of them at an accelerated rate, threatening drinking supplies - drinking water…

— Al Gore

“As to the reserved and withdrawn areas, excluding and excepting only the national parks, it is manifest that justice, equality, and dignity for these…

— Charles Edwin Winter

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's…

— Tracy Chevalier

The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen.

— N. Scott Momaday

The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

— Edward Abbey

Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was…

— Craig Thompson

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

For decades, people have known the chemical-propulsion approach to space travel is really not going to get us that far. Chemical propulsion is essentially…

— Franklin Chang Diaz

To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon.…

— Thomas McGuane