The road trip from Moab, Utah, to Ajo, Ariz., is a sunbaked ramble through about 600 miles of dreamy, lethal desert, beginning with the red rocks of Utah’s Arches National Park, skirting Monument ...

Death Valley High School got a new bus driver in the fall of 1966. He was overqualified, with a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of New Mexico, and he was broke again. Edward Abbey ...

Ed Abbey wasn't born in the American West, but as awed immigrants to certain other mythic landscapes like to say, he got there as fast as he could. It was 1944 and Abbey was 17 when he found his ...

Edward Abbey wrote that part of love is anger, and Amy Irvine tries to untangle the two in her new book, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness (Torrey House Press; $12). The book is a ...

Touching on civil rights, the environment, Vietnam, immigration, technology, pop culture, industrialism and nearly anything else that has been a hot-button issue since the mid-20th Century, Abbey's ...

Dear Sundog: Developers in Moab are building a subdivision named after Ed Abbey. They’re naming the cul-de-sacs Monkey Wrench Way and Hayduke Court. What a load of crap! Cactus Ed hated all real ...

Ken Sanders muses on his friendship with author and essayist Edward Abbey, who died in 1989. The lecture takes place at Westminster College Jewett Center Vieve Gore concert hall on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at ...

Edward Abbey’s quote, “Love flowers best in openness and freedom,” is a beautiful reminder that love grows when it is not controlled, forced or confined. The line is attributed to Abbey’s classic work ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Elizabeth Zach, The Washington Post Winter tourists photograph Delicate Arch, an iconic rock structure at Arches National Park in Utah. Edward Abbey's book ...

We should have listened to the late Edward Abbey, the writer and iconoclast who has been called the “Thoreau of the desert” (although he told me years ago that if he ever met the man who said that ...

Thirty years ago today, Edward Paul Abbey walked into the desert solo for the last time. The shockwave went out that morning. Ed Abbey was dead. Disbelief and grief and sweet sorrow permeated the day.