John Wayne’s iconic Westerns Stagecoach and The Searchers were filmed along the Arizona and Utah border in Monument Valley, a breathtaking expanse of sheer walled red rock mesas, buttes and spires. Here, Forrest Gump ceased his cross-country run and Clint Eastwood climbed a spire known as Totem Pole for the film The Eiger Sanction. Timeless…

Natural solitude, big sky country, a lifetime spent more outdoors than indoors and the calming sense that living remote and being self-reliant brings—these are things few of us deeply know and understand today. There are places unburdened by towns, unbound by paved roads, where the greatest influence remains the weather and seasons. The Oregon Outback,…