Download or read book Bitterbrush Country written by Diane Josephy Peavey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Landscape of Home written by Jeff Lee and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of some of the most evocative writing focusing on our vast natural heritage, along with pieces that address pressing land issues facing the West. This collection not only paints a vivid portrait of life in the Rocky Mountains, it also presents some of the finest nonfiction writing to be found in America today. This is a perfect selection that is bound to sink reader's roots deeper in the landscape of home.
Download or read book Working the Land written by Sandra K. Schackel and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Tiegs didn't take to driving a tractor when she became a farmer's wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation. Lila Hill taught piano, then ultimately took a job off the farm to augment the family income during a period of rising costs. From Montana's cattle pastures to New Mexico's sagebrush mesas, women on today's ranches and farms have played a crucial role in a way of life that is slowly disappearing from the western landscape. Recalling her own family-farm ties, Sandra Schackel set out to learn how these women's lives have changed over the second half of the twentieth century. In Working the Land, she collects oral histories from more than forty women—in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, and Texas—recalling their experiences as ranchers and farmers in a modernizing West. Through this diverse group of women—white and Hispanic, rich and poor, ranging in age from 24 to 83—we gain a new perspective on their ties to the land. Although western ranch and farm women have often been portrayed as secondary figures who devoted themselves to housekeeping in support of their husbands' labors, Schackel's interviews reveal that these women have had a much more active role in defining what we know as the modern American West. As Schackel listened to their stories, she found several currents running through their recollections, such as the satisfaction found in living the rural lifestyle and the flexibility of gender roles. She also learned how resourceful women developed new ways to make their farms work—by including tourism, summer camps, and bed-and-breakfast operations—and how many have become activists for land-based issues. And while some like Lila made the difficult decision to work off the farm, such sacrifices have enabled families to hold onto their beloved land. Rich with memory and insight into what makes America's family farms and ranches tick, Working the Land provides a deeper understanding of the West's development over the last fifty years along with new perspectives on shifting attitudes toward women in the workforce. It is both a long-overdue documentation of the lives of hard-working farm women and a celebration of their contributions to a truly American way of life.
Download or read book Home Land written by Laura Pritchett and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: essays on new approaches to ranching and preserving western lands
Download or read book When to Plant Bitterbrush spring Or Fall written by Richard L. Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For success in planting bitterbrush, the soil at planting depth must remain moist during germination and emergence. Fall-planted seed is in the ground ready to germinate as soon as the soil warms up. Emergence is usually 3 to 4 weeks later from spring planting. In tests in northeastern California spring plantings proved best where either or both of two conditions were met: precipitation was adequate and well distributed during the critical period and the soil retained moisture well. On drier sites or in very dry years on sites normally adapted to spring planting, fall planting was usually superior.
Download or read book An Accidental Cowboy written by Jameson Parker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning and breathtaking memoir that pays homage to a dying way of life. "An Accidental Cowboy" is a story of trauma, depression, and the beginnings of hope, set against the backdrop of the American Southwest.
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Download or read book Crazy Woman Creek written by Linda M. Hasselstrom and published by HMH. This book was released on 2004-05-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “blessedly unromantic” portrait of real women’s lives in the contemporary American West (Kathleen Norris). This wide-ranging collection of essays and poetry reveals the day-to-day lives and experiences of a diverse collection of women in the western United States, from Buddhists in Nebraska to Hutterites in South Dakota to “rodeo moms.” A woman chooses horse work over housework; neighbors pull together to fight a raging wildfire; a woman rides a donkey across Colorado to raise money after the tragedy at Columbine. Women recall harmony found at a drugstore, at a powwow, in a sewing circle. Lively, heartfelt, urgent, enduring, Crazy Woman Creek celebrates community—connections built or strengthened by women that unveil a new West.
Download or read book Women Writers of the West written by Julie Dannenberg and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in a unique first-person creative nonfiction narrative, Women Writers of the West profiles five women driven to write and succeed at a time when ambition in women was viewed as a flaw, not an asset--Helen Hunt Jackson, Jessie Benton Fremont, Louise Clappe, Mary Hallock Foote, Gertrude Bonnin.
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Download or read book Forged in Fire written by Mary Clearman Blew and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics ranging from escaping forest fires and smoke jumping to fighting house fires and making campfires are featured in this collection of essays--by a number of talented Idaho writers--that explore fire from various perspectives. Original.
Download or read book Snow Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 87 issues of Snow Country published between 1988 and 1999, the reader can find the defining coverage of mountain resorts, ski technique and equipment, racing, cross-country touring, and the growing sport of snowboarding during a period of radical change. The award-winning magazine of mountain sports and living tracks the environmental impact of ski area development, and people moving to the mountains to work and live.
Download or read book A Road of Her Own written by Marlene Blessing and published by Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty Western women writers describe their inner and outer journeys in the West by car, foot, and dogsled. They write of obstacles to women travelers, unfulfilled dreams, adventures in the wilderness, and long-distance runs. Blessing is a published author and editor-in-chief at a publishing company.
Download or read book An Analysis of National Forest Range Problems in Northeastern California written by United States. Forest Service. California Region and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Purshia written by James A. Young and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A useful and complete summary of all the scientific information available on one of the most significant plant species in the western and intermountain regions. Among the plant species of the great Basin rangeland, the Purshia—ancient members of the rose family evolved to survive the aridity and temperature extremes of this harsh region—are one of the most important. This book-length study of this key plant species provides a comprehensive examination of the biology and ecology of the species and region.
