American West

In “Tonto’s Dream” by David Bradley, the TV hero sleeps amid shards of pottery, Santa Fe traffic and casinos, with images of legendary cowboys floating above him.

Photographer David Dudley trains his lens on Cheyenne Frontier Days' Grand Parade.

A new documentary focusing on golden eagle research in the Bighorn Basin will soon air on Wyoming PBS.

A seasonal break from wildfires is disappearing in the West. A wildfire started this Saturday near Boulder, Colorado. It forced thousands of evacuations over the weekend, reminding people of what had just happened 3 months ago: the Marshall Fire, which burned down more than 1,000 homes. Experts say there are no longer fire seasons, just fire years.

The American West is a complex landscape where many cultures and ethnic groups live together.A series of webinars sponsored by Dartmouth University and…

A new Black Studies Center has opened this fall at the University of Wyoming. The center aims on advancing the accurate histories of Black people and…

Wyoming Public Media is pleased to announce a new season of its Edward R. Murrow Award-winning podcast, The Modern West. Selected for Boston-based PRX's…

Wyoming Public Media's podcast The Modern West has been gearing up for a new season. They're doing something quite different this time around. Instead of…

A new study finds that rural westerners care about the environment just as much as people in cities.Researchers at the University of Wyoming surveyed U.S.…

Dearfield, Colorado, is one of the last standing towns started by Black homesteaders in the Great Plains. Now, property in the ghost town has changed...