Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890132933 ISBN 13: 9780890132937

Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2008

Synopsis

No part of our nation has been more celebrated, glorified, and mythologized than the West. Here is a book on the women who are still shaping those myths. Raised on a ranch in Montana that she still works, Barbara Van Cleve eloquently describes the life of women ranchers in words and pictures in Hard Twist.
Her images and text document these women on the range and around their ranches, evoking their labor, their commitment, and the breathtaking landscapes in which they live.

About this title

From the Publisher:

There is one way to photograph the women ranchers of the West-from horseback-and one place to listen to their stories about defending the life of the contemporary ranch family, from inside. Montana ranching native Barbara Van Cleve traveled the Rocky Mountain West on horseback over a ten-year period, gathering images of women on the range and around their ranches-pictures of wind and weather, roundups and rodeo, women of labor and gumption, and the breathtaking landscapes in which they live. Honorable Mention, AAM, 1996. Runner-up, RMBPA, Jacket/Cover Design, 1996

About the Author:

Barbara Van Cleve learned about the hard work of ranching on her family s ranch, the Lazy K Bar, founded in 1880 on the east slopes of the Crazy Mountains in central Montana. She is the co-author, along with cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski, of Roughstock Sonnets.

About this edition

• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0890132933
• ISBN 13: 9780890132937
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176