The High West Author:Andy Russell, Photographs by Les Blacklock The spirit of the high and wild country of the West is very powerful- big medicine, the Indians call it. Those of us who have spent our lives working in the midst of it every day know its influences and its beauty. We who strive to interpret and portray it for less fortune ones living in the conctete canyons of big cities and the sprawl of adjou... more »rning suburbs are charged with the great challenge and responsibility of helping them to know it better and to realize that the richness of this wild country is worth preserving, even though they may never see it.
So join Les Blacklock and me on this trail- a path unwinding through wilderness country among shining mountains, across their vigorous slopes, down adjoining valleys and through the warm meadows where wildflowers dance in the wind. It is a way interwoven in a vibrant tapestry of life in wild places- of all that goes to make up the high West.« less