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Sketches from the Ranch: A Montana Memoir de Dan Aadland

Sketches from the Ranch: A Montana Memoir

Autor Dan Aadland Introducere de Suzanne Hart
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2008
In 1892 a stocky Danish immigrant named Magnus Jensen rode into south-central Montana. He liked what he saw and staked his future on the ranch he would carve out there. Today, Dan Aadland and his wife, Emily, live on the ranch built by Jensen, Emily’s grandfather. More than a century has passed, but the nature of ranching in Montana is little changed. Sensitive to the timelessness of the land, author Aadland approaches his ranching life as Thoreau approached life at Walden Pond.
 
In Sketches from the Ranch, Aadland brings ranching to life within the framework of one recent year. In simple but moving prose, he evokes the harsh beauty of the West, writing with as much elegance about breaking a colt as he does about the inner lives of cattle, the way his pickup handles in the snow, or how the relationship between a man and his horse often defines a good day on the ranch. Beautifully illustrated and lovingly told, Sketches from the Ranch bears poetic witness to the myth and reality that are the West.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803216365
ISBN-10: 080321636X
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 33 drawings
Dimensiuni: 187 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: BISON BOOKS
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Dan Aadland is a former teacher who ranches and breeds horses near Absarokee, Montana. He is the author of seven books, including The Best of All Seasons: Fifty Years as a Montana Hunter (Nebraska 2007) and The Complete Trail Horse: Selecting, Training, and Enjoying Your Horse in the Backcountry.

Cuprins

Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
A Note to the Reader
THE RANCH
SPRING
1. Calving - The stud colt - A new "snipe hunt" - The nature of the cow - A close call - Lion bait
2. "Freedom, heyday," cried Caliban - My breakout - Pronghorns - St. Olaf - Rattlesnakes under the outhouse
3. A decidion about the stud colt - The story of the leg - A premature trip to the funeral home
4. Testosterone machines - A spring ride - Killer baby antelope - Banks and noxious weeds
5. Stallions, mares, and foals - Centaurs and minotaurs
SUMMER
6. Pancho and Lefty - Running W's - The one-hoss shay - A bend in Butcher Creek
7. A big head of water - Reedy River - Hunting fish - Dead end - Sweet Charlotte - Steeplechase
8. Dry times - A shovel for a shield
9. White shorts and tennis shoes
10. Starting a filly
11. Farrier tales
12. First ride - A lady vet - Horse trading - Bicycles for bracelets
13. A big expensive bucket of bolts - Overshot stackers - Sergeant Fleming - "A time to sow, a time to reap"
FALL
14. A dusting on the mountains - New neighbor - A nice Lutheran girl - Return of the stud colt
15. Roundup - Elsie's pets
16. "Some people prefer dogs" - On eating your friends: Napoleon and Squealer
17. Moose
18. Weaning time - Discovery in the hills
WINTER
19. A lone sentinel - Coyotes - Patience
20. Requiem
21. El sol
Epilogue
About the Artist

Recenzii

“Dan Aadland is a cultivated, witty and intelligent inside observer of ranch life. This is a valuable and entertaining book.”—Thomas McGuane, author of Missouri Breaks

“In many ways, [Dan Aadland's] writing will be most powerful in capturing the uniqueness and importance of this way of life.”—Marc Racicot, former governor of Montana

“Running through this engaging book is Aadland’s love of the Montana landscape and its inhabitants, and his implicit destruction of the politically correct myth that ranchers are ruthless exploiters of nature.”—Robert C. Steensma, Western American Literature