The Washington Post
by Landon Jones
February 28, 2014
Category Archives: Articles
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 and Ink, Lightning and Lightning Bugs: Or, What Every Writer Needs to Know
Wild River Review
Princeton Writers – Spotlight
by Landon Jones
April 2010
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
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
Iron Will
While William Clark is best known for the expedition he made with Meriwether Lewis, his later life was as historic and more consequential.
Smithsonian Magazine
by Landon Jones
August 2002
Leading Men
Lewis & Clark: How an amazing adventure 200 years ago continues to shape how America sees itself
Time Magazine
by Landon Jones
July 8, 2002
(pdf version)
The Essential Lewis and Clark
(Ecco/Harper Colllins, 2000)
The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. This compact volume of their journals, compiled by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, includes all of the most riveting tales of their adventure, in their own words. Continue reading
Tea with the Princess
Tea with the Princess
A former editor of People magazine recalls his meeting with “the people’s princess”
Princeton Alumni Weekly
October 8, 1997
Elizabeth Triumphant: After a harrowing spring, a revitalized Taylor talks about her health, her passions, and her war against AIDS
Elizabeth Triumphant
After a harrowing spring, a revitalized Taylor talks about her health, her passions, and her war against AIDS
by Landon Y. Jones
PEOPLE
December 10, 1990
(pdf)
Busted by the Baby Boom
In 1967, Rumania’s “mother heroines” launched the most compressed baby boom in modern history — and destabilized an entire nation.
TIME
by Landon Y. Jones
January 29, 1990
(pdf version)
George Orwell: This is the Year for the Enigmatic Writer Who Devoted His Life to Speaking Unwelcome Truths
George Orwell: This is the Year for the Enigmatic Writer Who Devoted His Life to Speaking Unwelcome Truths
by Landon Y. Jones
PEOPLE MAGAZINE
9 January 1984
(pdf)