A look inside Alta Journal’s Issue 34.

Here are works on and of the West, including Crux, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, and Vigil, that we’re delighted to see published this month.

When Deadwood unveiled a statue of Chinese immigrant Wong Fee Lee, one family traveled from California to witness their ancestor finally recognized alongside Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.

After the Eaton Fire took his home and nearly his restaurant, Tyler Wells pitched a tent on a regenerative farm—and found a reason to return to Altadena.