Reflections West
Wednesday 4:54 PM
Reflections West is a weekly radio program that presents the thoughts of writers and scholars on the American West. These thinkers pair their own thoughts with a passage from literature and history.
Latest Episodes
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As Hannah Bissell watches her neighbors tinker with a tractor engine late into the evening, she wonders about the connection between shared memories and…
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Poet Damon Falke remembers the day when a mentor handed him a sack and said, "Read these, man. They'll change your life.""The book sale in those days…
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Marjorie Snipes and her family live in Georgia but spend vacation time near Seeley Lake, Montana:"It is amazing that while the world around us turns…
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After a lifetime of hearing about the American West's preferred myths, Tasha LeClair, who grew up in Wyoming, tends to feel invisible: “When I write about…
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Joseph Grady, who is Blackfeet, was adopted and raised by a non-Indian family near Seattle:"I went to school to learn that I was brown, because skin color…
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Archaeologist Sara Scott is fascinated by the petroglyphs of the West:"The crunch of limestone under my boots echoes up the canyon as I walk through its…
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Megan Calvert, an undergraduate at the University of Montana-Missoula, grew up in the shadow of Montana's Mission Mountains. The gothic influence of 19th…
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Karli Larsen is no stranger to U.S. Highway 2 between college in Missoula and home in northeastern Montana: "Over one thousand miles of radical backdrop,…
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Naomi Kimbell has always been fascinated by the view of the Rattlesnake Mountains, north of Missoula:"As a child, I used to walk home backward so I could…
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Cassandra Falke recounts a sunlit moment shared with a coyote, above Santa Fe:"We probably all have secret places. One of mine is a rock ledge on the…