When Ammon Bundy led an armed takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in 2016, writer James Pogue found himself there among the occupiers. He sensed that something big was happening, and it had less to do with public lands than with a political reckoning.
When Ammon Bundy led an armed takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in 2016, writer James Pogue found himself there among the occupiers, admitted into their inner circle. He’d fly-fished, reported, and bar-hopped his way throughout the West, and he couldn’t shake the sense that something big was happening here, but it had less to do with public lands than with a political reckoning. Pogue joins us to talk about his time at the Malheur occupation and the underpinnings of a righteous rebellion.
On Thursday, May 23, James Pogue will be at the King's English Bookstore in Salt Lake City for a reading from his new book Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West. That event is at 7 p.m. MORE DETAILS
James Pogue's writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Vice, among others. His new book is called Chosen Country [Indie bookstores|Amazon].
