Home Land: Ranching and a West That Works

by Laura Pritchett, Richard L. Knight (Editor), Jeff Lee (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781917895170
Publisher:	Bower House
Publication date:	05/18/2018
Series:	Rocky Mountain Land Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
Sales rank:	795,989
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction Teresa Jordan 1

Bridging the Great Divide: Reconnecting Rural and Urban Communities in the New West Richard L. Knight 13

Confronting Fear Diane Josephy Peavey 26

One Sweet Evening Just This Year Paul Zarzyski 34

The Western Range: A Leaking Lifeboat for Conservation in the New West Nathan F. Sayre 36

Looking Back Teresa Jordan 49

Hoof Making Contact Laura Pritchett 51

A Buddhist in Cattle Country Kim Stafford 63

Wasted on a White-Collar Job Joan Chevalier 64

Our Lands in the Belly of the Beast Drum Hadley 83

She Poured Out Her Own Julene Bair 85

Things of Intrinsic Worth Wallace McRae 99

The New Ranch Courtney White 101

Who Are We Here, Wanting to Know? Alma de mi alma, A Song of the Vaqueros of Mexico Drum Hadley 121

The Farm Rick Bass 124

Atlantic Rim: The Seekers Trail Sharon Salisbury O'Toole 132

Words Meet Deeds on the Land Paul F. Starrs 134

A Poem from the Edge of America James Galvin 147

Birth, Death, and Renewal: Living Heart to Heart with the Land Page Lambert 149

Wintering Mark Spragg 160

In the Clearing Linda Hussa 181

I remember my father in the future Aaron Abeyta 189

Bob Budd, Otters Dance 194

Editors and Contributors 207

Rocky Mountain Land Library 213

Colorado Cattleman's Agricultural Land Trust 214

Credits 215