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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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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.
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“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 (Thomas McGuane)
“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 (Marc Racicot)
“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 (Robert C. Steensma Western American Literature)
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- PublisherBison Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 080321636X
- ISBN 13 9780803216365
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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