This weekly column features news stories and event announcements from around the American Redoubt region. [1] (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. We also mention companies of interest to preppers and survivalists that are located in the American Redoubt region. Today, a look at the Lou Taubert outfitter stores. (See the Region-Wide section.)
Region-Wide
A television news segment, about a great family-run old-school outfitter store in Casper, Wyoming: A Western store like no other – Lou Taubert [2]. They also have a store in Billings, Montana.
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Seasonal Climate Forecast: September – November 2022 [3].
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Northern Rockies Geographical Area: Rest of Summer Fire Season Outlook. [4]
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Reader Karen B. wrote to remind me to mention a political migration movement that is similar to the American Redoubt movement. This is the Liberty Win New Hampshire movement [5], a.k.a. Free State New Hampshire.
Idaho
Noraly “Itchy Boots” Schoenmaker, the intrepid Dutch motorcyclist-geologist vlogger, recently passed through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. She now has 1.37 million subscribers. Don’t miss a recent episode, where she traveled through Bovill, Idaho [6], one of the settings of my Patriots novel series.
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Here is yet another mostly one-sided hit piece on The American Redoubt movement, this time from the strongly-leftist, anti-Christian, and anti-gun CNN: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books [7]. And here is a text version of the piece, with a bit more detail: Conservatives join liberals in ‘quiet and polite’ Idaho protest to protect their library from book-banners [8]. Update: That CNN piece now has more than 17,300 comments, mostly from liberal rah-rah CNN die-hards.
In the text version, notice how they included a reference to the completely unrelated Aryan Nations group, 30 years ago. And notice how they mischaracterize the American Redoubt relocation movement as exclusively Christian. It isn’t. It forthrightly includes Christians and Jews. But the latter always gets omitted from news reports, because it doesn’t match their narrative.
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Micron plans ‘world-class’ building in Boise, one of city’s largest [9].
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Sheriff Norris public statement at Town Hall Hayden, Idaho August 25, 2022 [10]. (This is presumably the first part posted of a multi-part video.)
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These amazing STOL planes are built in Sandpoint, Idaho: Insider Exclusive Look at the New Kodiak 900 [11].
Montana
At a recent Idaho gun auction, I encountered a revolver that had been engraved by Michael Edward Gouse [12]. I was greatly impressed by his work. Gouse lives in western Montana, but he does engraving for folks all over the country. He is a full-time gun engraver who specializes in styles of the Old American West such as Gustav Young, L.D. Nimschke, Ulrich, and Cuno Helfricht. You can reach Michael Gouse by phone at: (406) 363-0254.
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Wild Kingdom, Redoubt style: Glacier National Park: Grizzly vs Moose [13]. JWR’s Comment: Sounds like there was some window damage, downstairs…
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I had tentative plans to travel to go look for guns at the Butte, Montana gun show, in early October. But I just heard the Butte Gun Show has been canceled. There isn’t a place in Butte to hold it now. The Convention Center building where they usually have it has been taken over by the Yellowstone television show production staff. Wow. I guess money talks…
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Billings could be home to new species of fireflies [14].
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Some troubling news from up on Montana’s High Line: Family and community still reeling from ag vandalism [15].
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Montana reestablishes wolf hunting quotas outside Yellowstone National Park [16].
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The City Of Billings Adds to The Billings Area Bikeway and Trail Master Plan [17].
Central & Eastern Oregon
Gunman opens fire at East Bend shopping center, inside Safeway: 3 people dead, including shooter [18].
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Full honors for Bend firefighter Daniel Harro and his brother, Mark Harro [19].
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Fire at Pendleton flour mill is the latest blow to Northwest wheat growers [20].
Central & Eastern Washington
Level 3 evacuations downgraded for people living near Palisades wildfire [21].
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Spokane home values just officially skyrocketed, and not everyone is happy about it [22].
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Grant County task force arrests seven allegedly involved in exploitation of children [23].
Wyoming
‘Deadman’s Curve’ Takes Another Victim In Fiery Crash; WYDOT Launches Safety Campaign [24].
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Liz Cheney Not Only Defeated In Wyoming But Increasingly Delusional [25].
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Restoration work on America’s first National Forest [26].
Send Your News Tips
Please send your American Redoubt region news tips, event announcements, and American Redoubt-based companies worthy of a mention to JWR [27]. You can do so either via e-mail or via our Contact [28] form.