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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"This last fall, I was teaching a poetry class in Arlee, a small Montana town on the Flathead Reservation, just after the first snow fell on the…
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"My father, and many fathers and their fathers before them in the last century, especially those working in the American West, were forced to travel away…
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"The draft haunted me during the Vietnam War, and for us college kids standing naked that morning, awaiting our pre-induction physicals, it was a…
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"My close friend from high school died recently as the result of a car crash from three years ago. He had been driving to Missoula," writes Erik…
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Crissie McMullan, the executive director of Mountain Home Montana, considers the connection between homelessness and the environment. The absence of a…
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"The trouble with giving away a place name is that then we can guarantee someone else will go there," points out poet, Damon Falke. "No matter how remote…
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"I have no deep physical roots to a particular place, nor did my parents before me," writes anthropologist Sally Thompson in her manuscript, True North at…
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“For seven days in June 2015, Rachel Dolezal captured the news cycle,” writes University of Montana professor, Tobin Shearer, for "Reflections West."…
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Historian Ellen Baumler recalls a stark piece of Montana’s haunted history, Helena’s Hangman’s Tree.John Keene was the first recorded victim who breathed…
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Tess Fahlgren knows that art can thrive in the isolated prairie towns of Eastern Montana. "Driving Montana," by Richard Hugo, is a poet's tribute to…