Download or read book Loyal to the Land written by Billy Bergin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-05-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loyal to the Land is a sweeping history of one of the United States' largest working ranches, the Big Island of Hawaii's Parker Ranch. Dr. Bergin chronicles the ranch from its establishment on two acres purchased for ten dollars by John Palmer Parker to the years following World War II and the beginning of a new era of family ranch management under Parker’s grandson, Richard Smart. In this wide-ranging and insightful book, illustrated with more than 250 historical photos, Dr. Bergin first discusses the important Hispanic vaquero roots of ranching in Hawaii. He then relates the histories of the five foundation families, providing rich and detailed information on key members who contributed to the Ranch's success. The balance of the book examines every aspect of Parker Ranch development: management, labor, improvements and diversification of livestock, veterinary and animal care programs, and the Ranch’s role and influence on the Big Island and the state.
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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 Farm Land s Back to the Land written by Freddie Pikovsky and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular treehouse suspended above a lush forest. A cozy cabin perched on a mountainside. A small farm growing heirloom vegetables in the high desert. These are the extraordinary stories of the modern-day back-to-the-land-movement, a movement that embraces slow living, sustainability, and the value of doing things with your own two hands. Here are remarkable narratives, essential how-tos, and hundreds of breathtaking photographs from people who have embraced lives of adventure in wild places. Delivered in a handsome volume that inspires feelings of wanderlust, this book is a must-have for outdoor enthusiasts and anyone who has ever dreamed of escaping to a simpler way of life.
Download or read book Buying Rural Land in Texas written by Charles E. Gilliland and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether the prospective buyer is a farmer or rancher looking to expand operations, a sportsman seeking to preserve habitat for wildlife, or a nature enthusiast trying to conserve native flora and fauna, acquiring rural land can be a rollercoaster of exciting and stressful experiences. In Buying Rural Land in Texas: Taking the Right Risk, Charles E. Gilliland demonstrates that buyers can and should arm themselves with knowledge—of the land-buying process, of the potential problems involved, and of the resources available to them—to ensure a successful and satisfying outcome. In this practical guide, Gilliland outlines four phases of buying rural land: identifying what you want, in terms of both land and property rights; locating a suitable property; valuing the property; and completing the transaction. He then covers everything the potential landowner should know while progressing through these steps: how to identify and manage risk, plan an “exit strategy,” interpret present and future land prices, find the “perfect spot,” evaluate the property’s physical attributes, gauge economic trends, understand legal rights and limitations, protect natural resources, and, finally, close the deal. Incorporating real life examples from a career spent in land sales, Gilliland takes readers step-by-step through the process, also providing checklists, maps, professional tips, and information about how to tap additional sources of information and advice. With the knowledge gained from Buying Rural Land in Texas, new landowners will find themselves not at the end of a journey but at the beginning, as they learn to manage their land and to deliver it intact to future generations.
Download or read book Outlines of Land Economics written by Richard Theodore Ely and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas Ranch Sisterhood The Portraits of Women Working the Land written by Alyssa Banta and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people may think of ranchers and cowboys as men. But although they are under-chronicled, ranch women work from dark to dark, keeping step with hired hands, brothers, fathers and husbands. They blaze trails through unforgiving scrub. They cook supper and feed bulls. At any given time, they wear the hats--and the gloves--of geologist, veterinarian, lawyer and mechanic. They are fierce and feminine and powerful. Photojournalist and writer Alyssa Banta spent over a year following more than a dozen Texas women through their grueling daily routines, from the messy confines of the working chute to the sprawling reaches of the back pasture. The result of this unprecedented access is an intimate portrait of the challenges and achievements of the ranch women of the Lone Star State, along with the land and livestock that sustain them.
Download or read book An Economic Study of a Typical Ranching Area on the Edwards Plateau of Texas written by Bonney Youngblood and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Outlines of Land Economics Characteristics and classification of land written by Richard Theodore Ely and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Taylor Ranch War written by Dick Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an example of the past colliding with the present as an ultra liberal Colorado Supreme Court chief justice reached back 1,500 years to Spain's land grants and shared (communal) use of property and tried to mix them with the American concept of private property rights. She ruled in several opinions that, under a 160-year-old Mexican land grant (similar to colonial Spanish grants) and a 150-year-old ambiguous document, an initially undefined number of Costilla County, Colorado, residents would have free "reasonable" use of the 77,500-acre, privately owned, Taylor Ranch, mainly for livestock grazing and timber. A bare majority of the court's justices agreed with her. When the rulings were gradually implemented with a vengeance by a district judge, some 1,200 residents were granted virtually uncontrolled and unlimited use of the Ranch. The Ranch owners not only lost $23 million in market value of the property but were also ordered to pay at least $300,000 in court costs. The rulings were called "stunning" and "unprecedented." As 2006 approached, the residents were assessing the perhaps marginal economic benefits of the access and wondering whether voluntary compliance with a locally-drafted land use plan would save The Mountain's fragile environment. For over 100 years, the mostly Hispanic population of the Culebra River basin adjacent to the Colorado-New Mexico border lived a very isolated Shangri La existence based on subsistence farming and hunting and fishing in the snow-capped Sangre de Cristo Mountains. In 1960, Jack Taylor, a tough timberman from North Carolina, purchased one of the last two major pieces of a one-million-acre Mexican land grant covering the mountains and told the local residents to stop trespassing on it. In 45 years of litigation over rights on the property, Taylor won victories in Federal courts but they were overturned in the State courts, and Jack Taylor's successors were hit hard. In reaction to Jack Taylor's arrogant attitude,
Download or read book 1997 Census of Agriculture Farm and ranch irrigation survey 1998 written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ranches of the American West written by Linda Leigh Paul and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at American ranches, from century-old working ranches to rugged new compounds designed for life in the West.
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