A record warm winter could send Lake Powell to a historic low. Flaming Gorge may be its lifeline. Utah just wrapped up its warmest winter on record. The water supply outlook is well below normal, and Lake Powell could hit a dangerous low.

A record warm winter is sending Lake Powell to record lows. #AmWest

Coyote America A conversation with Dan Flores on history, myth, and the wildness that endures

Coyote America - A conversation with Dan Flores on history, myth, and the wildness that endures

Reckoning with Jason Herbert - @herberthistory.bsky.social

jasonherbert.substack.com/p/coyote-ame...

#envhist #animalhistory #amwest

Opinion | Which City Burns Next?

“The astonishing thing is not that Los Angeles burns but that so much of its development has enhanced rather than blunted the threat from fire,” Stephen Pyne.

@dwallacewells.bsky.social in the NYT -> www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o... #LAFires #AmWest

WHA 2026 Digital Scholarship Lightning Round - Expression of Interest Please complete the form below. Someone from the Digital Scholarship Committee will contact you to confirm your acceptance to the lightning round. Contact Sean Fraga, sfraga@usc.edu, with questions.

Western historians: consider this CFP for the digital history lightning round at the 2026 WHA conference in Portland! Great format for discussing work in progress with a supportive audience. Happy to answer any questions. Respond by Wed., Dec. 3. #AmWest 🗃️

Screenshot from Western History Association Facebook page showing new Western Historical Quarterly Editorial Team at Colorado State University

What a team! Congrats to CSU & all involved. Our scholarly community will all benefit from your hard work. And a million thanks to Anne F. Hyde and everyone at Oklahoma who did such good work with the Western Historical Quarterly over the past decade! #AmWest 🗃️ #WHA2025 (Screenshot from WHA FB Page)

How Europe's oldest language ended up on US trees The US' Basque immigrants turned to sheepherding in order to survive. Today, their legacy can be found in unique wooden tree carvings they left throughout the American West.

Arborglyph is my word of the day 🗃️ #amwest
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

The Forest Service Claims It’s Fully Staffed for a Worsening Fire Season. Data Shows Thousands of Unfilled Jobs. DOGE cuts and voluntary resignations have severely hampered the agency as the nation enters the peak of fire season, with more than 1 million acres burning across 10 Western states.

The West is burning and gaslighting us with claims that USFS fire personnel is full staffed is the last thing the region needs. It's not rocket science. Slashing funding and jobs for forest and public lands management leads to worse outcomes. Duh. #AmWest

www.propublica.org/article/fore...

"In the early 2000s I worked with the Huntington ... to secure a large #NEH grant to help create an online database of all people — Natives, soldiers, settlers, missionaries — who were in one way or another affiliated with the California missions before 1850." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... #amwest

Excerpt from the chapter "Bandido! An Anti-Melodrama" published in the book "Zoot Suit & Other Plays" by Luis Valdez

A screen capture of El Teatro Campesino's production of Luis Valdez's play "Bandido!" (1998). The production is online via NYU's Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library.

"The history of the #OldWest is such blend of fiction, fact, conjecture & sheer poppycock that it amounts to a flawed American mythology under constant revision,” playwright Luis Valdez.

A production of Valdez's play about #TiburcioVásquez is online: sites.dlib.nyu.edu/hidvl/tqjq2c6w #amwest

Portrait of Charles M. Russell sitting in front of a painting while wearing a cowboy hat (Wikipedia)

Charles M. Russell riding a horse; painting above handwritten letter from C. M. Russell to "Friend Ed" Ed Botsford; Dobie Art no. 269. 1910. J. Frank Dobie Art Collection, Harry Ransom Center

Charles Marion Russell, the "cowboy artist" who produced more than 2,000 paintings of the American West, was born #OnThisDay in 1864.

(The illustrated letter seen here is from @ransomcenter.bsky.social's J. Frank Dobie Art Collection: norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/fin...)

#ArtHistory #AmWest 🗃️📜🎨

Applications for our annual funding season are due in 4 DAYS! March 15th. Please help spread the word (and apply yourself)! 🗃️ #AmWest

What are your favorite new (2023-25) books on the North American West? Any discipline, any sub-region, any time period. GO!

#AmWest 🗃️📗

Help me help you! Apply for funding from the Redd Center! Less than a month left to apply for our awards/funding for research and public programming! #funding #amwest

Less than a month left to apply for our awards/funding for research and public programming! #funding #amwest 🗃️

Here's my latest @writingwestward.bsky.social Podcast episode!

I indulged in some favorite pet topics of mine with this one (Indigenous history, the environment, etc.) but in a region I haven't work in much. Very very very cool work. Books like this win awards for a reason! 📗🗃️ #amwest

This is one of the absolute best opportunities out there for grad students in #amwest history #skystorians

#CFP reminder for this seminar I'm hosting (and edited collection that will result from it) on Outdoor Recreation in the North American West!

January 15 deadline

Submit a proposal yourself and share as widely as you can.

#AmWest #USWest📗🗃️

The WHA Call for papers is linked below. Less than a week to get proposals in.
#AmWest

Good morning, new followers! If you’re a historian of the #AmWest or #Midwest, I made a starter pack a while ago. Let me know if you’d like to be added.

068 - Holly Miowak Guise - Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II | Writing Westward Podcast A conversation with historian Holly Miowak Guise about her book, Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II (University of Washington Press, Indigenous Confluences Series, 2024).   Dr. Guise i...

🚨New Writing Westward Podcast Episode🚨

For Native American Heritage Month here's my conversation w/ Prof. @hollyguise.bsky.social (UNM) about her book, "Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II" (@uwapress.bsky.social 2024).

writingwestwardpodcast.podbean.com/e/068-holly-...

#AmWest 🗃️

Hey #WHA2024 friends! Please corner me for a chat if you have a manuscript in the works that you think would be a good fit for this new UNM Press series I'm editing. Focus on work that make intentional connections to broader contexts. DM me if you want to set a time to talk. #AmWest 🗃️📗

Want more #amwest historians in your feed? Also a few Utah running pics from @brendenwrensink.bsky.social and myself thrown in for fun!

#AmWest Historians, UNITE! (thanks @jasonheppler.org!)

Hey #skystorians, especially those of you in the new #AmWest group, I'm looking for additional panelists for the WAWH 2025 meeting in Costa Mesa next April.

My paper is on marriage/women/federal land policies/19cAmWest/Settler Colonialism/gender. Anyone want to join me?

I forgot my own hashtag. #AmWest

Have any of my North American West history (or other discipline) scholars created a #AmWest starter pack? Seems like something @jasonheppler.org would be on top of...

Glass Ghost: The Queer Cartography of an Unruly Revenant Hugh Glass was dead: to begin with. With the tools of queer cartography, an historian maps the transnational haunts of a folk hero, from the 19th-century US frontier to the Canadian landscapes of the ...

#WorldBeardDay

Hugh Glass had a beard! Read about him in "Glass Ghost: The Queer Cartography of an Unruly Revenant" by Caroline Abbott

niche-canada.org/2022/06/22/q...

#envhum #queerecology #amwest #masculinity

The Real Civil War History Behind Kevin Costner's Horizon Horizon is set in the Civil War era. A historian explains what was going on in the Western U.S. during that time.

In the midst of this political dumpster fire, I talked with Olivia Waxman at TIME about the new Kevin Costner western that just dropped.

It's set in the Civil War West - but you wouldn't really know it. #shocker #skystorians #AmWest 🗃️

time.com/6992699/the-...

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Check out our Fall Lectures schedule at the BYU Redd Center for Western Studies! Some great presentations by Jay Buckley & Fred Woods, Newell Boyd Knight, Brent Rogers, and Paul Formisano.

*Most* should stream on our YouTube and FB live feeds.

reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...

#AmWest 🗃️

The Texas Yawp - The American Yawp Call for Contributors We’re asking you to lend your expertise to the Texas Yawp,* a new, massively collaborative, free and open-source Texas history project. You may be familiar with our U.S. history ...

In the midst of deeply troubling developments in the world of Texas history lately, this is absolutely tremendous news from the American Yawp. And if you haven’t seen the call for support from the Alliance for Texas History, go donate.

www.americanyawp.com/projects/the...

#texashistory 🗃️ #AmWest