Clay Jenkinson
Clay with a look at what's coming for the 2026 Winter Retreats at beautiful Lochsa Lodge.
Clay reports from his annual humanities retreat near the Montana-Idaho border in the Northern Rockies.
Clay reads from his
During a long life of hard reading, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is the book that helps me understand what it is to be human.
Nolan
Nolan Johnson, Listening to America’s intrepid videographer and podcast editor, shares highlights of his adventures with Clay while traversing the country from Long Island, New York, to the source of the Mississippi River to Monterey, California, on LTA’s 2024 Travels with Charley/Steinbeck Tour.
Glendive dinosaur museum
The Dinosaur and Fossil Museum in eastern Montana presents its detailed fossil displays in the context of “Biblical history.”
Frank and Clay video still
Listening to America’s “Chief Scout,” Frank Lister and Clay visit the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, where George Custer’s 7th Cavalry met its fate against Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors in June 1876.
John Steinbeck loved Montana — actually, he fell in love with it. So far as we know, he had never been there before 1960. His travels across the country had all been at lower latitudes.
Clay visits Pompeys Pillar National Monument along the Yellowstone River east of Billings, Montana.
illustration: Steinbeck and Charley with bears in Yellowstone
Steinbeck and his dog Charley have an eventful visit at Yellowstone National Park.
Clay visits the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum which presents its exhibits in the context of biblical history.