Natural Stories
John ClaytonNature is story; stories are our nature
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As American as baseball and national parks
The amphitheater near the Madison Information Station in Yellowstone (2017 Magicpiano photo courtesy Wikimedia)
A week ago Saturday—the day news broke that Major League Baseball (MLB) and Trump administration officials had scouted potentia...
The essay of the art
The lesson of Substack is like the lesson of life: You’re better off being more like yourself.
There are exceptions, certainly, if your deepest self is grammatically incoherent, or a sociopath. But in the case of Natural Stories, my deepes...
Are national parks unoccupied land?
This week’s story is a conversation with author Carla Chung Mattix. After a 26-year career as an attorney in the U.S. Department of the Interior, last month she published National Parks and the Supreme Court: Groundbreaking Legal Battles (U...
Yellowstone as a synthetic living room
When I awoke in the tent, it was cold and dark. The dog and I both needed to pee. And the clock informed me that dawn was on its way, I’d been asleep for nine hours, it was time to get up.
On a September weekday about ten years ago, I’d sn...
At Least One Person Who’s Moved
This week’s story is a conversation with author Allen Morris Jones. The current Montana Poet Laureate, Allen has also published novels, nonfiction, and kids’ books. Last month he published his first collection of short fiction, A Kind of Ma...
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John Clayton is the author of books including Natural Rivals, The Cowboy Girl, and Wonderlandscape. His weekly newsletter Natural Stories tells stories about people in nature.
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