A miner's cabin at the Senator Beck Mine, San Juan Mountains, Colorado.

Parachute, Colorado untouched by the oil shale boom of the early 1980s.

Columbia River Gorge at sunset.

Trappers Lake the cradle of the American Wilderness Movement.

Silt, Colorado before the energy boom of oil shale in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

A mine site near Ouray, Colorado.

A gas well goes in near Rifle, Colorado.

Sunset on the Roan Plateau soon to be opened for oil and gas development, Garfield County, Colorado.

A false front store on a log cabin in historic South Pass City, Wyoming.

Three graves in the Hispanic communty of La Garita, Colorado in the northern San Luis Valley.

An image from Navajo Tribal Park in Monument Valley from the book Sacred Objects and Sacred Places.

Parachute Town Hall, Parachute, Colorado.

One hundred car coal trains rumble across Western Colorado near Yampa.

Oil shale cliffs near Parachute, Colorado.

Monument Valley, Utah in morning light.

Moisture laden clouds move across Monument Valley in Navajo Tribal Park.

Moisture laden clouds across Monument Valley.

The 1,500 year-old Medicine Wheel at Medicine Wheel National Landmark, Wyoming.

A sacred mesa near Zuni, New Mexico.

The Yankee Girl headframe, SanJuan Mountains along Red Mountain Pass.

Yankee Girl headframe.

A mine dump near Ouray, Colorado.

Trapper's Lake, Colorado the birthplace of wilderness.

The Chinese Wall in the Flat Tops Wilderness, White River National Forest.

The hippy west--a white horse stands in a geodesic dome at the site of Drop City near Trinidad, Colorado.

A mine site near Ouray, Colorado.

Worker trailers during the oil shale boom in Battlement Mesa, Colorado.

A New West gate in all its ostentatious glory to the east of Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado.

Homestead house with a door nailed over a windown, eastern Colorado.

Original log homestead cabin west of Craig, Colorado.

Rock barn Piceance Basin, Colorado.

Log barn at the Dodo Ranch, West Elk Creek, New Castle, Colorado.

Historic barn on Silt Mesa, Silt, Colorado.

Historic mining site on Red Mountain Pass, Colorado.

Vernacular barn built into the side of a hill, Silt Mesa, Silt, Colorado.

Mine dump Atlantic City, Wyoming on BLM land.

Historic mining mill near Marble, Colorado.

Mine headframe, Mogollon, New Mexico.

Eureka Theatre, Eureka, Nevada along the loneliest highway in America.

Large arrows, teepees and a hogan near Mancos, Colorado.

Tourist signs near an Arizona interstate.

The Lace House, Blackhawk, Colorado threatened by mega casinos.

Motel along historic Route 66, Williams, Arizona.

Cribs or brothels, Telluride, Colorado.

Historic mine near Ouray, Colorado.

Contemporary brothel in a doublewide trailer out among the sagebrush, Nevada.

Historic tree at the top of Lolo Pass, Montana.

The Lewis and Clark Trail near Lolo Pass, Montana.

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Ironton Park historic house near Ouray, Colorado.

Historic structure near Chattanooga, Colorado below Red Mountain Pass.

Gates of Lodore, Lodore Canyon, Dinosaur National Monument.

Three Forks, Montana.

The Smoking Place cairns a Nez Perce sacred site in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho.

An historic mining structure along Red Mountain Pass, San Juan Mountains, Colorado.

Indian Camp Pass, White River National Forest.

Historic wagon tracks along the Ute Trail in the White River National Forest, Colorado.

Historic Ute Indian bison hunting blind in the Flat Tops Mountains, White River National Forest.

Trapper's Lake, Colorado.

Bison grazing in Grand Teton National Park.

Crowheart Butte, Wyoming.

A New West gate near Pagosa Springs, Colorado for a subdivison for second home owners.

Red Mountains, Red Mountain Pass, Colorado.

Abandoned mining equipment, Yankee Boy Basin, San Juan Mountains, Ouray, Colorado.

Trailers for energy workers during the oil shale boom of the 1980s, Battlement Mesa, Colorado.

Parachute, Colorado before the oil shale boom of the early 1980s.