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Feels Like Far

A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains

By: Linda M. Hasselstrom

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Feels Like Far

A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains

By: Linda M. Hasselstrom

In "Feels Like Far", award-winning author Linda Hasselstrom paints an intimate portrait of family, love, work, nature, and survival against the backdrop of the far-flung South Dakota prairie. In a direct and unsentimental style Hasselstrom maps the landscape of her life, demarcating the same beauties and brutalities that intermingle on the Great Plains she calls home.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618124950

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9780618124954

No Place Like Home

Notes from a Western Life

By: Linda M. Hasselstrom

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No Place Like Home

Notes from a Western Life

By: Linda M. Hasselstrom

In No Place Like Home, Linda Hasselstrom ponders the changing nature of community in the modern West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into mean, congested cities. Her scrutiny, like her life, moves back and forth between her ranch on the South Dakota prairie and her house in an old neighborhood at the edge of downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming. The vignettes that form the foundation of her consideration are drawn from the communities she has known during her life in the West, reflecting on how they have grown, thrived, failed, and changed, and highlighting the people and decisions that shaped them. Hasselstrom’s ruminations are both intensely personal and universal. She laments the disappearance of the old prairie ranches and the rural sense of community and mutual responsibility that sustained them, but she also discovers that a spirit of community can be found in unlikely places and among unlikely people. The book defines her idea of how a true community should work, and the kind of place she wants to live in. Her voice is unique and honest, both compassionate and cranky, full of love for the harsh, hauntingly beautiful short-grass prairie that is her home, and rich in understanding of the intricacies of the natural world around her and the infinite potentials of human commitment, hope, and greed. For anyone curious about the state of the contemporary West, Hasselstrom offers a report from the front, where nature and human aspirations are often at odds, and where the concepts of community and mutual responsibility are being redefined.

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302

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University of Nevada Press

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0874178053

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9780874178050

Land Circle

Writings Collected from the Land

By: Linda M. Hasselstrom

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Writings Collected from the Land

By: Linda M. Hasselstrom

A new kind of rancher and a new kind of environmentalist, Linda M. Hasselstrom speaks with an eloquent simplicity in Land Circle while exploring her visceral connection with the land and the people of the Great Plains. A true voice from the heartland, Hasselstrom urges the preservation of a vanishing way of life and declares in unequivocal terms the intrinsic value of the plains. She vividly portrays both the landscape and the local sensibilities, exploring ''Where Neighbor Is a Verb,'' but also ''Why One Peaceful Woman Carries a Pistol.'' These essays, well balanced by her award-winning poems, touch on elemental themes such as grief, loss, and respect for nature with a universality that is relevant to all of our lives.

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1458755762

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9781458755766

Going Over East

Reflections of a Woman Rancher

By: Linda M. Hasselstrom

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Going Over East

Reflections of a Woman Rancher

By: Linda M. Hasselstrom

An honest portrayal of contemporary life on the plains from an award-winning author. Hasselstrom structures her narration around the opening and closing of gates as she goes "over east" en route to the summer pasture. With each stop, she makes a nostalgic foray into the past and celebrates the silent dignity of deserted homesteads.

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220

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1555911412

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9781555911416

Gathering from the Grassland

A Plains Journal

By: Linda M. Hasselstrom

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Gathering from the Grassland

A Plains Journal

By: Linda M. Hasselstrom

Nature writer, poet, and longtime leader in land stewardship, Linda M. Hasselstrom examines several generations of family diaries searching for an understanding of her ancestors and for direction in planning for the future of the plains ranch which has been in the family for over a century. Moving through the days of a year, she is never afraid to show the reader the most difficult thing of allthe truth of her life. The portrait that emerges is of a woman who makes peace with life's complexities and finds joy in honoring the plains and its people and animals. Ever the nature writer at heart, Hasselstrom crafts miniature essays on plains animals including antelope, owls, badgers, snakes, buffalo, and cattle. She also delves into rural community dynamics, death and aging, family, and the work of a writer.

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319

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1937147134

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9781937147136

Feels Like Far

A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains

By: Linda M. Hasselstrom

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Going Over East

Reflections of a Woman Rancher

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Reflections of a Woman Rancher

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Land Circle

Writings Collected from the Land

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Book's by Linda M. Hasselstrom

Feels Like Far

Feels Like Far

No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home

Land Circle

Land Circle

Going Over East

Going Over East

Gathering from the Grassland

Gathering from the Grassland

Feels Like Far

Feels Like Far

Going Over East

Going Over East

Land Circle

Land Circle

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