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Lost Souls Press, a brand new micro-publishing venture, is bringing literature from the Four Corners Country and beyond to life. Pre-order your books today:

https://igg.me/at/lost-souls-press/x#/

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Animas Valley Summer. By Jonathan P. Thompson, 2019. 

www.jonathanpthompson.com

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Yvonne Martin (1941-2016). Where Lost Souls Dwell. Mixed Media, 1981. 

Fictional art from Behind the Slickrock Curtain, a yet-to-be-published novel by Jonathan P. Thompson. 

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If you’re interested in Western U.S. history, mining, pollution, the environment, rivers, culture, or a Sense of Place, then you really should read River of Lost Souls, by me. Get it! https://riveroflostsouls.com/

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Pipe, with Huerfanito Peak in the background. San Juan Basin, New Mexico, August 2017. 

Photo by Jonathan P Thompson

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Carrizo Mountain Sunset, August 2017. 

Photo by Jonathan P Thompson

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The Great Sage Plain and Ute Mountain, SE Utah and SW Colorado, August 1, 2017. 

Photo by Jonathan P. Thompson

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Pumpjack with dark sky. Aneth Oil Field. Utah. July 2017.

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Row of tanks. Lybrook, New Mexico. 

Photo by Jonathan P. Thompson

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This isn't just another dry year, it's climate change coming home to roost

This isn’t just another dry year, it’s climate change coming home to roost

Back in June, as the 416 Fire raged outside of Durango, Colorado, I wrote an essay about how the conflagration illustrated the way that climate change was affecting life in places that once seemed invulnerable, like the tiny town of Silverton, elevation 9,318 feet.

As is often the case with articles on this topic, it drew the trolls into the comment section. “A drought in the desert Southwest?…

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A story I once wrote about real life events. 

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River of Lost Souls: Weekly excerpt #1

River of Lost Souls: Weekly excerpt #1

… The capitalists formed the Gold King Mining & Milling Company, and went to work developing the claim, combining it with the nearby Harrison Mine. By the summer of 1895, Nelson’s one hundred feet of workings had grown to five hundred feet; in 1896 the Harrison mill at Gladstone reportedly pounded out more than $10,000 from Gold King ore. In 1897 the company built a mile-long tramway reaching…

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Scarce San Juan snowpack is not unprecedented, but that doesn't make it "normal"

Dry spell isn't unprecedented, but it sure ain't normal. #drought #cowx #RiverofLostSouls

“For the first time in fourteen years, San Juan County celebrated Christmas and New Year’s days without any snow on her streets, and with very little snow within the county.” That was the  front-page news a century ago this month for the Silverton Standard newspaper in the high San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado.

This January, the news was pretty much the same: Virtually no snow in the…

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Grenadier Range Skyline, 2019. 

San Juan River Light, 2019.

These and other paintings and photography by Jonathan P. Thompson is available as high quality prints at https://www.artpal.com/riveroflostsouls

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Fine art prints of my photos and "paintings" for sale

Fine art prints of my photos and “paintings” for sale

I’ve been a photographer for a long time, and a digital “painter” for a little while. But it’s never really occurred to me to sell my images. Well, I’m starting now. After all, I’ve got kids in college and all that. The paintings, especially, are made to print in rather large sizes.

Visit my virtual gallery: https://www.artpal.com/riveroflostsouls

Below are some of the images you’ll find now, and…