Home Land
Published on 18. May 2018
232 pages
978-1-917895-17-0 (ISBN)
Description
If you care about the West, you must care about the lands of the West?lands that are disappearing rapidly, along with the people and cultures that go along with them.In this collection of 22 essays, the editors have brought together some of the best?and most insightful?writing on ranching in the West. These writers explore the changing landscape of the West and how, in an age of huge, corporate-owned ranches, the small rancher can survive. This book brings together the best writers in the West today?including poets, ranchers, and conservationists?in a one-of-a-kind, unique look at the West.Includes essays by: Aaron Abeyta, Julene Bair, Rick Bass, Bob Budd, Joan Chevalier, James Galvin, Drum Hadley, Linda Hussa, Page Lambert, Wallace McRae, Sharon Salisbury O'Toole, Diane Josephy Peavey, Nathan Sayre, Mark Spragg, Kim Stafford, Paul F. Starrs, Courtney White, Paul Zarzyski
Winner of the Colorado Book Award.
Winner of the Colorado Book Award.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
Canada
File size
1,12 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-917895-17-0 (9781917895170)
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Laura Pritchett | Richard L. Knight | Jeff Lee
Home Land
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05/2018
Bower House
€16.50
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Jeff Lee is director of the Rocky Mountain Land Library, a nonprofit educational organization whose mission is to encourage a greater awareness of the land. For the past twenty years, he has also been a bookseller at Denver's legendary Tattered Cover Book Store.
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction - Teresa Jordan
- Bridging the Great Divide - Richard L. Knight
- Confronting Fear - Diane Josephy Peavey
- One Sweet Evening Just This Year - Paul Zarzyski
- The Western Range: A Leaking Lifeboat for Conservation in the New West - Nathan F. Sayre
- Looking Back - Teresa Jordan
- Hoof Making Contact - Laura Pritchett
- A Buddhist in Cattle Country - Kim Stafford
- Wasted on a White-Collar Job - Joan Chevalier
- Our Lands in the Belly of the Beast - Drum Hadley
- She Poured Out Her Own - Julene Bair
- Things of Intrinsic Worth - Wallace McRae
- The New Ranch - Courtney White
- Who Are We Here, Wanting to Know? - Alma de mi alma - A Song of the Vaqueros of Mexico - Drum Hadley
- The Farm - Rick Bass
- Atlantic Rim: The Seekers' Trail - Sharon Salisbury O'Toole
- Words Meet Deeds on the Land - Paul F. Starrs
- A Poem from the Edge of America - James Galvin
- Birth, Death, and Renewal: Living Heart to Heart with the Land - Page Lambert
- Wintering - Mark Spragg
- In the Clearing - Linda Hussa
- i remember my father in the future - Aaron Abeyta
- Otters Dance - Bob Budd
- Editors and Contributors
- Rocky Mountain Land Library
- Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust
- Credits
