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In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming?s Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a man?s world, she is perhaps the strangest member of this beguiling community of drunks and eccentrics. So begins her unabating search for a place to belong and for the raw materials with which...
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"For many outsiders, the word ranching conjures romantic images of riding on horseback through rolling grasslands while living and working against a backdrop of breathtaking mountain vistas. In this absorbing memoir of life in the Wyoming high country, Mary Budd Flitner offers a more authentic glimpse into the daily realities of ranch life--and what it takes to survive in the ranching world. Some of Flitner's recollections are humorous and lighthearted....
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This is a study of the historical context of homesteading, farming, and ranching in Wyoming from pre-Territorial incursions to around 1960. The study considers many forms of homesteading, including especially those people who took up land under any of the laws providing for the distribution of the public domain, but others as well, and thus examines the broad contours of farming and ranching.
8) Wyoming bold
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"Former border agent Dalton Kirk thought his life was over--literally--when a gang of smugglers left him for dead. Defying all odds, he survives his ordeal and returns to his Wyoming ranch ready to dedicate his future to a more peaceful home on the range. Until lovely Merissa Baker knocks on his door. Merissa is well aware of her reputation as the local eccentric--she knows things before they happen--and she's had a vision that Dalton is in danger....
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Calder Brand volume 3
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In a tale perfect for fans of Yellowstone, the legendary New York Times bestselling author brings America's frontier to vivid life in a saga of love, hope, and endurance in 1919 Montana, as the end of the Great War, the looming start of Prohibition, and reignited rivalries put a small town on the brink of a seismic shift.
"Battle-scarred and emotionally ravaged by the loss of his wife and children to Spanish Flu, former US Army Major Logan Hunter...
10) The Snow Pony
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Prolonged drought has strained Dusty's ranching family to the breaking point, but she finds consolation with her wild and beautiful horse.
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"The critically acclaimed author of The Home Place explores the heart and mystery of Big Sky Country in this evocative and atmospheric novel of family, home, love, and responsibility inspired by William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The only son of a cattle rancher, Anthony Fry chafed against the expectation that he would take over the business that had belonged to his family for generations. While his ancestors planted deep roots in the unforgiving Montana...
12) Chisum
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John Wayne stars as John Chisum, a real-life cattle king who's grittily determined to protect his empire against a land-grabbing developer (Tucker). Based on the New Mexico's 1878 Lincoln County War.
13) Frontier scout
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After fighting in the Civil War, Wild Bill Hickok is now working as a U.S. Deputy Marshal. He and his friend Whiney head west to New Mexico to investigate why large shipments of cattle purchased by his army buddy, Steve Norris, have been mysteriously disappearing during cattle drives.
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"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000 acre wildfire, threatening her century old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the...
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"Describes how some cultures have worshipped cattle or made them a symbol of pastoral freedom; how cattle were herded and domesticated; how the beef and dairy industries developed in Europe and the New World; how butter influenced the Protestant Reformation and helped some women to economic independence; how the cattle cultures helped settle North America; how meat became industrialized and margarine appeared as the first plastic food; and how science...
18) Amazing grazing
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Describes efforts on three Montana ranches to preserve the environment while also raising cattle by rotating the herds among various grazing pastures.
