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What's Your Why?
Myths of the American West: A Conversation with Historian Betsy Gaines Quammen
The cowboy myth isn’t just about nostalgia—it’s a symbol of independence that still defines Western identity, for better or worse. – Betsy Gaines QuammenJoin host Emy Digrappa on What's Your Why? The Author's Journey as she sits down with historian and writer Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America. In this episode, Betsy discusses the myths and misconceptions surrounding the American West—from Hollywood’s romanticized cowboys to the modern-day influx of newcomers seeking their own slice of wilderness.Growing up in Ohio but mak...
2025-05-28
39 min
Open Container: Outdoor culture as a free flowing conversation
Myths Of The American West
Today Doug opens the container with author Betsy Gaines Quammen.Doug begins the episode reflecting on his first experience moving to the western US where the natural beauty of the outdoors was overwhelming and he encountered an overarching sentiment of distrust and anger towards himself as a newcomer as well as the government authority who was employing him. That same mentality has persisted and is playing a role in the current effort to sell off our public lands.Doug is then joined by Betsy Gaines Quammen who has written multiple books on the culture of...
2025-05-27
1h 10
Mountain & Prairie with Ed Roberson
Betsy Gaines Quammen Returns - Myths, Curiosity, and Human Connection (Live at the Old Salt Festival)
Betsy Gaines Quammen is a Montana-based historian and writer whose work explores the history and myths of the American West and how those stories have endured and shaped life in the region today. Betsy joined me on the podcast several years ago to discuss her amazing book, American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West, and since then, she’s published another must-read: True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America. In True West, Betsy meets face-to-face with a wide range of folks here in the West– from militia members to hardcore environmentalists– and se...
2025-02-07
55 min
Unlock A Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook On Your Commute.
True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America by Betsy Gaines Quammen
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777210to listen full audiobooks. Title: True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America Author: Betsy Gaines Quammen Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From the Northern Rockies to the Southwest deserts, Betsy Gaines Quammen explores how myths shape our identities, heighten polarizations, and fracture our shared understanding of the world around us. As she investigates the origins and effects of myths of the American West, Gaines Quammen travels through small towns and big cities, engaging people and building...
2024-06-25
12h 39
Read With Your Ears, Explore With Your Heart With Full Audiobook
True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America Audiobook by Betsy Gaines Quammen
Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 777210 Title: True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America Author: Betsy Gaines Quammen Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Length: 12:39:40 Language: English Release date: 06-25-24 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Politics, Public Policy, Political Ideologies Summary: From the Northern Rockies to the Southwest deserts, Betsy Gaines Quammen explores how myths shape our identities, heighten polarizations, and fracture our shared understanding of the world around us. As she investigates the origins and effects of myths of the American West, Gaines Quammen travels through small towns and big...
2024-06-25
12h 39
Listen to New Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America by Betsy Gaines Quammen
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America Author: Betsy Gaines Quammen Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From the Northern Rockies to the Southwest deserts, Betsy Gaines Quammen explores how myths shape our identities, heighten polarizations, and fracture our shared understanding of the world around us. As she investigates the origins and effects of myths of the American West, Gaines Quammen travels through small towns and big cities, engaging people and...
2024-06-25
30 min
Future Natures
Land, democracy, identity
Antonia Malchik is the author of a forthcoming book entitled ‘No Trespassing: How the ancient struggle for ownership, private property and the rights of the commons will define our future’. Antonia regularly writes online about ownership, property and what we lose in the privatization of the commons through her Substack newsletter, ‘On the Commons’. In this episode, we trace the histories of enclosure into the current structures of ownership and privatization. Focusing primarily on the United States, Antonia raises some nuanced and refreshing insights into how enclosure relates to urban mobility, contemporary environmentalism, and democracy.With a kn...
2024-05-07
1h 18
Idaho Matters
From Yellowstone to the Bundys, this new book reconsiders the toxicity of our modern myths
Betsy Gaines Quammen is the author of True West, Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America.( Torrey House Press, Betsy Gaines Quammen)Betsy Gaines Quammen, who chronicled the infamy of the Bundy family in the bestselling American Zion, says that experience inspired her to further examine the truths and myths of modern American western culture. The result is her new book, True West.“The onslaught of misinformation has attached itself to the Western myth in the last few years, leaving outright lies embedded in Western legends,” said Quammen. “And people have built their own versions of the...
2024-04-11
13 min
The Landscape
Talking public lands extremism with Betsy Gaines Quammen
Kate and Aaron are joined by author Betsy Gaines Quammen to talk about public lands and extremism. Betsy has written two books about extremism in the West. Her first, American Zion, looks at the connection between Mormonism and extremism. Her second book, True West, which came out last year, digs into the myths that define the West. News Interior rule aims to crack down on methane leaks from oil, gas drilling on public lands – Associated Press Proposed Chuckwalla National Monument video – Center for Western Priorities California tribe that lost 90% of land during Gold Rush to get site to serv...
2024-03-28
1h 02
The Landscape
Talking public lands extremism with Betsy Gaines Quammen
Kate and Aaron are joined by author Betsy Gaines Quammen to talk about public lands and extremism. Betsy has written two books about extremism in the West. Her first, American Zion, looks at the connection between Mormonism and extremism. Her second book, True West, which came out last year, digs into the myths that define […] The post Talking public lands extremism with Betsy Gaines Quammen appeared first on Center for Western Priorities.
2024-03-28
1h 02
The Bookshop Podcast
The Heart of the Community: Inside Bozeman's Country Bookshelf
Send us a textHave you ever wandered into a bookstore and felt like you've come home? That's the magic Ariana Paliobagis, owner of Country Bookshop and her team, weaves in Bozeman, Montana. In this episode, I speak with store manager Jamie Winter about the rich literary landscape of Montana, where names like Ivan Doig and Betsy Gaines Quammen are as much a part of the territory as the Rocky Mountains. Country Bookshelf is a local, independent bookstore located in historic downtown Bozeman, Montana. It’s the place where people go to feel part of thei...
2024-02-19
18 min
Yeah Nah Pasaran!
Betsy Gaines Quammen on True West
This week we have a chat with Dr Betsy Gaines Quammen about her book True West: Myth & Mending On The Far Side Of America and the fascinating cast of characters which stalk both its pages and the left-hand side of the U.S.of A.
2024-02-01
00 min
Write On Four Corners
Write On Four Corners with DelSheree Gladden: Interview with Betsy Gaines Quammen
Betsy Gaines Quammen takes on difficult subjects and attempts to untangle the webof events and people that lead up to the January 6 Insurrection in her new book “True West.” She joins the show this week to talk about her 100+ interviews and what she learned in her quest to better understand how the myths of the west played into events of the last few years
2023-12-20
30 min
The Extreme History Project: The Dirt on the Past
The Myth of the West with Betsy Gaines Quammen
Join us as we talk with the author of True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America, Betsy Gaines Quammen. We discuss her book and what she learned about America as she spent time in small towns and big cities throughout the West, talking with people about their beliefs on land, politics, liberty, and self-determination. Betsy tells us about some of her conversations, and what she learned about the West’s enduring myths and complex history from militia members, Montana ranchers, and grassroots organizers. Dr. Betsy Gaines Quammen is a historian and writer. She rece...
2023-12-17
1h 00
Last Born In The Wilderness
354 / True West / Betsy Gaines Quammen
Historian and author Betsy Gaines Quammen returns to the podcast to discuss her new book, True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America, published by Torrey House Press. Building on her previous book, American Zion, Gaines Quammen follows the historical roots and trajectories of troubling political trends in the Western United States, decoupling the myths and material realities of the landscapes and the peoples and the more-than-human lives that occupy them. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/betsy-gaines-quammen-2 // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast
2023-12-12
1h 23
Last Born In The Wilderness
Preview / True West / Betsy Gaines Quammen
Historian and author Betsy Gaines Quammen returns to the podcast to discuss her new book, True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America, published by Torrey House Press. Building on her previous book, American Zion, Gaines Quammen follows the historical roots and trajectories of troubling political trends in the Western United States, decoupling the myths and material realities of the landscapes and the peoples and the more-than-human lives that occupy them. Support the podcast and listen to this interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness
2023-10-28
05 min
Check Your Shelves
Betsy Gaines Quammen: Check Your Shelves Ep. 3
Check Your Shelves sat down with Betsy Gaines Quammen to talk about her forthcoming book, TRUE WEST, forthcoming for Torrey House Press this October. This book tackles the western mythologies that have damaged so many lives and led to events like January 6th. Quammen will be in Utah for at least TWO events of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Go see her! Oct 15, 2023, 6:00 pm Back of Beyond Books and Torrey House Press Betsy Gaines Quammen and David Quammen Oct 16, 2023, 7:00 pm The Springdale Community Center with Zion Canyon Mesa hosts Betsy Gai...
2023-09-26
37 min
Keen On America
The Heartbeat of the Wild: David Quammen's conservationist manifesto from landscapes of wonder, peril and hope
EPISODE 1516: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE HEARTBEAT OF THE WILD, David Quammen, about how to write with both appropriate spiritual reverence and scientific accuracy about the wildernessDavid Quammen is an author and journalist whose eighteen books include Breathless (2022), The Tangled Tree (2018), Spillover (2012), The Song of the Dodo (1996) and, most recently, The Heartbeat of the Wild (2023). Though he began his career as a novelist (To Walk the Line, 1970, and three other works of fiction), in recent decades he has written only nonfiction, focused mainly on science, history...
2023-06-03
33 min
The Edge of Everyday
Conservation, Religion and the Power of Conversation With Betsy Gaines Quammen
Betsy Gaines Quammen is a writer, historian, and conservationist. She is the author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Western Public Lands. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, New York Daily News, and the History News Network. She has a doctorate in Environmental History from Montana State University and a Master's of Science in Environmental Studies.Over the years, she has studied various religious traditions, with particular attention to how cultures view landscape and wildlife. The rural American West, pastoral communities of northern Mongolia, and the grasslands of East Africa have been...
2022-06-14
1h 00
The Extreme History Project: The Dirt on the Past
American Zion with Betsy Gaines Quammen
Betsy Gaines Quammen discusses her book, American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West. Our discussion explores how the Bundy family mix spiritualism, patriotism, and wild places to assert possession over western federal lands. We discuss the myth of the cowboy, militia conceptions of public land in the west, wilderness, and Mormon history. Dr. Betsy Gaines Quammen holds a doctorate in Environmental History from Montana State University, her dissertation focusing on Mormon settlement and public land conflicts. She has studied various religious traditions over the years, with particular attention to how cultures view landscape and wildlife. Join us...
2022-05-17
1h 29
Mountain & Prairie with Ed Roberson
Betsy Gaines Quammen - A Fascinating History of Public Lands in the West
Betsy Gaines Quammen is a historian and conservationist, and she’s also the author of the excellent book "American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, & Public Lands in the West." Betsy has enjoyed a long career in the conservation world, working on issues ranging from grizzly bears in the West to fish in Mongolia to wildlife in East Africa. She also holds a doctorate in Environmental History from Montana State University, where her dissertation focused on the Mormon settlement of the West and public land conflicts. With such a depth of expertise on such a wide range of subjects, I was th...
2022-04-28
1h 07
Humanities Conversations
Misinformation, Militia Maneuvering, and Moving Forward in the Age of Pandemic | Wyoming Institute For Humanities Research
The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university. This podcast is part of our Think & Drink series of talks, which are informal conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioners on a range of topics. 28 May 2020: “Misinformation, Militia Maneuvering, and Moving Forward in the Age of Pandemic” Speakers: Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of “American Zion: Cliven Bundy,” “God and Public Lands in t...
2021-02-14
1h 15
In Site
American Zion - Betsy Gaines Quammen Interview
“A map of the American West is a Rorschach test; people see what they want to see as reflections of who they are.” Betsy Gaines QuammenBetsy’s conservation work in Mongolia with Buddhist monks on fisheries and in Bhutan for snow leopards centered on finding common ground between religion’s ancient roots and the modern precepts of conservation. After continuing such work with Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders in the U.S., she was drawn to the idea of exploring these possibilities with a uniquely American, relatively recent religion, Mormonism. Writing her PhD dissertation on the early, suc...
2020-12-07
1h 13
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
Bonus Episode: David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen
Join Hal and writers David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen for a bonus episode of the BHA Podcast & Blast. As we enter the season of giving thanks, of family in a time of social distancing, of reading good books by the fire, we hope you enjoy this wide ranging conversation, a love letter to writing and partnerships and the West.
2020-11-25
1h 05
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
Bonus Episode: David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen
Join Hal and writers David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen for a bonus episode of the BHA Podcast & Blast. As we enter the season of giving thanks, of family in a time of social distancing, of reading good books by the fire, we hope you enjoy this wide ranging conversation, a love letter to writing and partnerships and the West.
2020-11-25
1h 05
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
Historian, conservationist and writer Betsy Gaines Quammen
Betsy Gaines Quammen is the author of the new book American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West,which explores the intersection of religious belief and landscape. Quammen never set out to write about the Bundys, or Mormonism. But her interviews with Bundy family members and her exhaustive study of the history of the Latter Day Saints revealed a side of the anti-public lands movement that no other writer or scholar has even approached.
2020-11-04
1h 39
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
Historian, conservationist and writer Betsy Gaines Quammen
Betsy Gaines Quammen is the author of the new book American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West,which explores the intersection of religious belief and landscape. Quammen never set out to write about the Bundys, or Mormonism. But her interviews with Bundy family members and her exhaustive study of the history of the Latter Day Saints revealed a side of the anti-public lands movement that no other writer or scholar has even approached.
2020-11-04
1h 39
Unleash the Power of Your Imagination With Full Audiobook
American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West Audiobook by Betsy Gaines Quammen
Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 453705 Title: American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West Author: Betsy Gaines Quammen Narrator: Emily Durante Format: Unabridged Length: 10:23:00 Language: English Release date: 10-27-20 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: History, Religion & Spirituality, North America, Christianity, Religious Studies, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature Summary: American Zion is the story of the Bundy family, famous for their armed conflicts in the West. With an antagonism that goes back to the very first Mormons who fled the Midwest for the Great Basin, they hold a sense of entitlement that confronts...
2020-10-27
10h 23
Start The Full Audiobook That Keeps Busy Professionals Hooked.
American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West by Betsy Gaines Quammen
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453705to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West Author: Betsy Gaines Quammen Narrator: Emily Durante Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: American Zion is the story of the Bundy family, famous for their armed conflicts in the West. With an antagonism that goes back to the very first Mormons who fled the Midwest for the Great Basin, they hold a sense of entitlement that confronts both law and...
2020-10-27
10h 23
Listen to New Full Audiobooks in History, The Americas
American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West by Betsy Gaines Quammen
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453705to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West Author: Betsy Gaines Quammen Narrator: Emily Durante Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: American Zion is the story of the Bundy family, famous for their armed conflicts in the West. With an antagonism that goes back to the very first Mormons who fled the Midwest for the Great Basin, they hold a sense of entitlement that confronts both law and...
2020-10-27
10h 23
Listen to New Full Audiobooks in History, The Americas
American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West by Betsy Gaines Quammen
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West Author: Betsy Gaines Quammen Narrator: Emily Durante Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: American Zion is the story of the Bundy family, famous for their armed conflicts in the West. With an antagonism that goes back to the very first Mormons who fled the Midwest for the Great Basin, they hold a sense of entitlement that confronts both law...
2020-10-27
30 min
Last Born In The Wilderness
Betsy Gaines Quammen: The Faith & Fate Of Land Use In The American West
This is a segment of episode #250 of Last Born In The Wilderness “God's Country: The Faith & Fate Of Land Use In The American West w/ Betsy Gaines Quammen.” Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/LBWquammenLearn more about and purchase Betsy’s book ‘American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West’: https://bit.ly/3gAJfYOHistorian and conservationist Betsy Gaines Quammen examines the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and how the theological underpinnings of this religious organization has played an important and instrumental role in the settler-co...
2020-06-03
06 min
Last Born In The Wilderness
250 / God's Country / Betsy Gaines Quammen
In this episode, I speak with historian and conservationist Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West. This discussion with Betsy begins with an examination of the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and how the theological underpinnings of this religious organization has played an important and instrumental role in the settler-colonialist expansion in the American West since the followers of this faith settled in the region over a century ago. This is especially relevant when we examine how these historical processes have led to the present day...
2020-06-01
1h 27
Last Born In The Wilderness
#250 | God's Country: The Faith & Fate Of Land Use In The American West w/ Betsy Gaines Quammen
[Intro: 11:36 | Book Pre-sale: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr]In this episode, I speak with historian and conservationist Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of ‘American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West.’ This discussion with Betsy begins with an examination of the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and how the theological underpinnings of this religious organization has played an important and instrumental role in the settler-colonialist expansion in the American West since the followers of this faith settled in the region over a century ago. This is especially relevant when we exami...
2020-06-01
1h 27
New Books in Environmental Studies
Betsy Gaines Quammen, "American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West" (Torrey House, 2020)
In 2014, the cattle rancher Cliven Bundy entered the national spotlight after a showdown against federal officials over grazing rights on public lands. Two years later, his sons seized the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and occupied it for forty days with militia and sovereign citizen groups. As journalists rushed to the scene, trying to make sense of the motivations behind their anti-government politics, Betsy Gaines Quammen, a historian working on her history Ph.D., knew something was amiss. She had spent hours at the Bundy home, interviewing them for her dissertation on Mormon settlement in the West. She knew...
2020-05-18
49 min
New Books in the American West
Betsy Gaines Quammen, "American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West" (Torrey House, 2020)
In 2014, the cattle rancher Cliven Bundy entered the national spotlight after a showdown against federal officials over grazing rights on public lands. Two years later, his sons seized the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and occupied it for forty days with militia and sovereign citizen groups. As journalists rushed to the scene, trying to make sense of the motivations behind their anti-government politics, Betsy Gaines Quammen, a historian working on her history Ph.D., knew something was amiss. She had spent hours at the Bundy home, interviewing them for her dissertation on Mormon settlement in the West. She knew...
2020-05-18
49 min
Access Utah
Religion, The West, & Coronavirus: Betsy Gaines Quammen & David Quammen On Thursday's Access Utah
Conservationist and historian Betsy Gaines Quammen and journalist David Quammen have been on a virtual book tour, conducted from their home in Bozeman and including special guest Boots the Python.
2020-04-23
54 min
Give and Take
Episode 124: The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, with David Quammen
My guest is David Quammen. In his new book The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, this nonpareil science writer explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field—the study of life’s diversity and relatedness at the molecular level—is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the move...
2018-09-19
51 min