Portions of this essay appear in Peter Richardson’s Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo, just out from University of California press, printed with permission.

Thompson until the somewhat obscure Johnny Depp film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas helped push him back in the limelight. But if you think the documentary-style Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter ...

Hunter S. Thompson photographed ... the homestead where Dr. Gonzo wrote while chain-smoking Dunhills through gold-tipped cigarette holders. Anita Thompson's peacock Jesse at Owl Farm.

Hunter S. Thompson's ashes will be blasted from a cannon mounted inside a 53-foot-high sculpture of the journalist's "gonzo fist" emblem, his wife said Tuesday. The cannon shot, planned sometime ...

If you talk to people who knew Hunter S. Thompson, born 74 years ago this week ... Before Vegas, Hunter's patented brand of Gonzo Journalism—the deeply personal, ferociously hallucinogenic ...

Taking on the job of wrangling the author of Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas taught Cheryl Della Pietra a lot, starting with the fact that most of the cliches were true. In 1992, Cheryl Della ...

Even before his suicide at age 67, celebrating Hunter S. Thompson’s larger-than-life personality was an obsession for many of his fans. As one of Colorado’s most famous writers, the gonzo ...

No simple urn, no simple eulogy, would suffice for the man who invented so-called gonzo journalism ... with other Thompson fans, said: "This is bogus. These are not Hunter's fences.

I guess I can call myself one of the Dylan generation since, at 63, I’m the same age as the troubadour from Hibbing but the prose stylists that allured an Anglo-Irish lad hopelessly strapped ...