Bill Lane, whose stewardship of Sunset magazine helped shape the modern ideal of the Western lifestyle, died Saturday of respiratory failure at Stanford Hospital, his family said. He was 90.

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) Bill Lane, the former publisher of Sunset magazine and a philanthropist who donated millions of dollars to Stanford University and environmental causes, died here on July 31 ...

L.W. “Bill” Lane Jr., a pioneering environmentalist and philanthropist who as the onetime co-owner and publisher of Sunset magazine helped define the postwar lifestyle of the American West ...

See About archive blog posts. Former Sunset magazine publisher Bill Lane, who donated millions of dollars to Stanford University and environmental causes, has died. He was 90.