American Prairie aims to build a 3.2-million-acre wildlife reserve in Montana. Ranchers say it threatens their way of life. Who gets to shape the American West?

Here are works on and of the West, including The Hill, Destiny Express, and Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin, that we’re excited to see published this month.

As a teenager and college student, Charles Glass worked for John Wayne—driving him to studios, conventions, and movie sets during Hollywood’s most turbulent era.

Mark Twain wrote letters about life in California for several newspapers in the mid-1860s. Selections from those letters bring that period of state history to life.