Vail Daily's Western authors talk with West's new visionaries Four years ago, Meredith Ogilby and Corinne Platt, two Western women, set out to create a “panoramic view of today's West,” to explore the meaning of the West. They traveled more than 1,000 miles in rain and snow, getting lost at least three times, to meet with and interview 49 fellow Westerners. What they created is a collection of narratives and photographs that begins a dialogue about the convergence of past, present and future in our region. READ MORE .... A new book explores the people and ideas shaping our region and future By: Charlotte Jusinski 01/27/2010 Voices of the American West is the result of that adventure. READ MORE .... By Jenny Shank, 1-25-10 Voices of the American West Photographer Meredith Ogilby and writer Corinne Platt met each other several years ago at the Headwaters Conference, an annual discussion of wide-ranging issues facing the West at Western State College in Gunnison, Colo. At the time, Platt writes in her introduction to Voices of the American West
7 questions with Meredith Ogilby
In more recent times political views are shifting, and changing attitudes about conservation and battles over natural resources are shedding light on our region at the national level. It seems even more important to define for ourselves what the term Western encompasses.The West of Us
And while the West is a landscape, it’s also a place heavily defined by the kinds of people who choose it as their home.
It was those people that writers Corinne Platt and Meredith Ogilby set out to find. The two spent four years traveling the Rocky Mountain West, clocking thousands of highway miles and interviewing dozens of the West’s “heavy lifters.” Their subjects included politicians, artists, environmental activists, ranchers and scientists from New Mexico, Montana, Colorado, Arizona and beyond.NEW WEST BOOK REVIEW
Westerners Speak Up in “Voices of the American West”
Westerners of all stripes discuss pressing matters facing the the region. 
by Corinne Platt & Meredith Ogilby
Fulcrum Press, 280 pages, $29.95
