During M. John Fayhee’s time as editor of the Mountain Gazette, he oversaw an annual “dog issue,” which contained a slew of photos of mountain dogs doing mountain dog things and essays about mountain dogs doing mountain dog things. The “dog issue” was always a reader favorite. Fayhee decided to aggregate the best of those […]
Wayward Journeys through the Old Heart of the New West-personal anthology
For the last four years of his stint as editor of the Mountain Gazette, M. John Fayhee penned a monthly column titled, “Smoke Signals,” which covered everything from a barroom competition in which participants compared their various scars to a mid-air incident (instigated by Fayhee) on a plane flying from Hong Kong to San Francisco. […]
A Potpourri of Useful Miscellany from the Highest Parts of the Highest State
M. John Fayhee overheard a barroom argument between two inebriated men, each of whom was convinced they “knew for a fact” what the highest-elevation municipality in the country was. It was an argument that M. John Fayhee had heard many times. (For the record, it is Alma, Colorado, elevation 10,548 feet.) That experience led Fayhee […]
M. John Fayhee’s Greatest Hits from the Mountain Gazette
During his 12-year stint as the editor, M. John Fayhee often contributed many stories to the pages of the Mountain Gazette, one of the iconic outdoor magazines in the West. He eventually chose several dozen of his favorite pieces and spliced them together into a personal anthology that covers subjects ranging from the best towns […]
Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home
Few subjects incite more passion than the reintroduction of wolves into their native Western ecosystems. Shortly after it was confirmed by wildlife biologists that wolves started venturing of their own accord from Wyoming into the wilds of Colorado, activists Gary Wockner, Gregory McNamee and SueEllen Campbell solicited essays and poems from a wide variety of […]
A Mountain Gazette Anthology
M. John Fayhee helped revive the Mountain Gazette, a renowned publication specializing in the literature of the outdoors. It had lay dormant for more than two decades. This book contains some of the best work from both iterations of the magazine. Included are stories from the likes of Edward Abbey, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bowden, […]
