We are pleased to invite the Stanford community to another colloquium on the North American West. Rebecca Solnit is an independent scholar and the author of several books, including Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West.