Ken Sanders muses on his friendship with author and essayist Edward Abbey, who died in 1989. The lecture takes place at Westminster College Jewett Center Vieve Gore concert hall on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at ...

The road trip from Moab, Utah, to Ajo, Ariz., is a sunbaked ramble through about 600 miles of dreamy, lethal desert, beginning with the red rocks of Utah’s Arches National Park, skirting Monument ...

Rambling about Zion and Bryce Canyon and Arches by day and revisiting Abbey by night, I found that many of his observations and a few of his plaints still resonated forty years after the book was ...

Death Valley High School got a new bus driver in the fall of 1966. He was overqualified, with a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of New Mexico, and he was broke again. Edward Abbey ...

Touching on civil rights, the environment, Vietnam, immigration, technology, pop culture, industrialism and nearly anything else that has been a hot-button issue since the mid-20th Century, Abbey's ...

Edward Abbey needed a day job. Writing novels didn’t pay well, so the aspiring author took part-time work with the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service as a fire lookout, a seasonal worker ...

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We should have listened to the late Edward Abbey, the writer and iconoclast who has been called the “Thoreau of the desert” (although he told me years ago that if he ever met the man who said that ...

MOAB — Some vintage Detroit horsepower that the late author Edward Abbey bought himself as a 60th birthday treat now promises to nourish a new generation of writers and readers in the desert he ...