Home Land : Ranching and a West That Works

Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction, Teresa Jordan 1 Richard L. Knight, Bridging the Great Divide: Reconnecting Rural and Urban Communities in the New West 13 Diane Josephy Peavey, Confronting Fear 26 Paul Zarzyski, One Sweet Evening Just This Year 34 Nathan F. Sayre, The Western Range: A Leaking Lifeboat for Conservation in the New West 36 Teresa Jordan, Looking Back 49 Laura Pritchett, Hoof Making Contact 51 Kim Stafford, A Buddhist in Cattle Country 63 Joan Chevalier, Wasted on a White-Collar Job 64 Drum Hadley, Our Lands in the Belly of the Beast 83 Julene Bair, She Poured Out Her Own 85 Wallace McRae, Things of Intrinsic Worth 99 Courtney White, The New Ranch 101 Drum Hadley, Who Are We Here, Wanting to Know? Alma de mi alma, A Song of the Vaqueros of Mexico 121 Rick Bass, The Farm 124 Sharon Salisbury O'Toole, Atlantic Rim: The Seekers' Trail 132 Paul E Starrs, Words Meet Deeds on the Land 134 James Galvin, A Poem from the Edge of America 147 Page Lambert, Birth, Death, and Renewal: Living Heart to Heart with the Land 149 Mark Spragg, Wintering 160 Linda Hussa, In the Clearing 181 Aaron Abeyta, i remember my father in the future 189 Bob Budd, Otters Dance 194 Editors and Contributors 207 Rocky Mountain Land Library 213 Colorado Cattleman's Agricultural Land Trust 215 Credits 217