Or, as they’re called in Yiddish, the ‘machatonim’
Time Magazine
by Landon Jones
Sept. 30, 2014
(pdf version)
Category Archives: Articles
Death and the Maiden: Meryl Streep’s Tribute to Philip Roth
Time Magazine
by Landon Jones & Pia de Jong
September 23, 2014
(pdf version)
Another St. Louis Summer
The New Yorker
by Landon Jones
August 22, 2014
Echoes of Michael Brown’s Death in St. Louis’s Racially Charged Past
The shooting of the unarmed 18-year-old by police on Saturday is part of a long history of violence toward African Americans in the Midwestern city.
The Atlantic
by Landon Jones
August 12, 2014
The Triumph of Soccer Moms
Why Americans have gone nuts for the World Cup.
The Wall Street Journal
June 30, 2014
by Landon Jones
(pdf version)
Loaded language: The gun metaphors that pervade our everyday slang
The Washington Post
by Landon Jones
April 18, 2014
Too Many Celebrities, Not Enough Heroes
The Washington Post
by Landon Jones
February 28, 2014
Why Lou Reed Can’t Die
Today, if we want to praise a new band, we call it “the New Velvet Underground.” Here’s why.
Wall Street Journal (pdf)
by Landon Jones
November 30, 2013
Confessions of a Rodeo Rookie
The barrel race was going so well. Then I decided to wave my cowboy hat.
The Wall Street Journal
by Landon Jones
April 29, 2013
(pdf version)
Millie and Me
Millie and Me
I learned that mega-fires like Millie will become increasingly common in the years to come, as climate-change clears our forests.
by Landon Y. Jones
Huffington Post
September 16, 2012 (pdf)
Octopuses & Ink, Lightning & Lightning Bugs: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Writers
Why That Music Makes Us Smile
AARP Bulletin
by Landon Jones
February 2, 2009
Babe in the Woods: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Unlikely Summer in Montana
Montana the Magazine of Western History (pdf)
by Landon Jones
Autumn 2007
Clark on the Yellowstone: His often neglected reconnaissance of the “Rochejhone” left us a vivid record of a vanished ecosystem
The First Baby Boomer Turns 60
Swinging 60s? The First Baby Boomer looks back – and forward – on the eve of a milestone.
Smithsonian (pdf)
by Landon Jones
January 2006
Tribal Fever
Twenty-five years ago this month, smallpox was officially eradicated. For the Indians of the high plains, it came a century and a half too late.
Smithsonian Magazine
by Landon Jones
May 2005
A Great Expedition: An explorer’s biographer makes his own wondrous discoveries
A Great Expedition: An explorer’s biographer makes his own wondrous discoveries
by Landon Y. Jones
Princeton Alumni Weekly
June 9, 2004
(pdf version)
Lewis & Clark’s Excellent Adventure
Our original pioneers — and why they still matter
Reader’s Digest
May 2004
(pdf version)
William Clark and the Shaping of the West
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2004; University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2009)
Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark cocaptained the most famous expedition in American history. But while Lewis ended his life just three years after the expedition, Clark, as the highest-ranking federal official in the West, spent three decades overseeing its consequences: Indian removal and the destruction of Native America. In a rare Continue reading
William Clark at Portage des Sioux
The Council that Changed the West
Gateway Heritage The Quarterly Magazine of the Missouri Historical Society (pdf)
by Landon Jones
Fall 2003 – Winter 2004