The Old West’s ‘Non-Renewable Resources’ In Peril

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  07.08.08 | 10:47 AM ET

When it comes to the preservation of historic landmarks, it’s often “the grand, the notable and the notorious” that get the attention—but sometimes it’s the structures built for everyday use that tell us the most about history, the AP observes. According to this story, in places like Utah and Colorado, it’s those everyday buildings—the remnants of early frontier settlements—that are slowly disappearing. “You could tell this was a place where they were doing everything they could to make it,” one archaeologist said of a historic homestead near Salt Lake City. “That’s the story of the American West for me right there.”

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Eva Holland is a contributor to the World Hum blog. She is also a contributing editor at the Matador Network and at Not Coming to a Theater Near You, and a regular contributor to the Ottawa Citizen. Based in Ottawa, Canada, she loves to write about travel, history, sports, and culture high or low.


1 Comment for The Old West’s ‘Non-Renewable Resources’ In Peril

TambourineMan 07.09.08 | 3:00 PM ET

Some little punk burned down the Dewey Bridge? That’s a damn shame.

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