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 the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in Reader's Digest Canada, NationalGeographic.com, the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


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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