Riding the Edge of an Era: Growing Up Cowboy on the Outlaw Trail - Softcover

Diana Allen Kouris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0931271851 ISBN 13: 9780931271854

Publisher: High Plains Pr, 2009

Synopsis

In this elegant and illuminating true story, Diana Allen Kouris tells of growing up on the historic Browns Park Livestock Ranch, where in the 1800s Butch Cassidy found sanctuary, and nearly a century later her family hosted Robert Redford as he retraced the Outlaw Trail. In her description of the joys and tragedies of ranch and family life, she captures the human spirit as beautiful, dynamic, and vital as the land. Ironically, it is the uniqueness and beauty of the land that eventually brings change and hastens the end of the lifestyle generations of her family knew. But because she rode on the edge of a vanishing era and brings it vigorously to life, it will remain in her heart--and in ours

About this title

About the Author:

Diana Allen Kouris was raised on the historic Brown's Park Livestock Ranch in the three corners country of Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. Surrounded with beautiful mountains and a lingering essence of the Old West, Diana thrived in the embrace of her family and their cattle ranching heritage.

Diana is also the author of The Romantic and Notorious History of Brown's Park, which is a regional best-seller. Her work also appears in periodicals and an anthology.

Review:

Riding the Edge of an Era is one of the most heartwarming and captivating books I have ever read. Diana Allen Kouris is a masterful storyteller with a wonderful story to tell. This book should be required reading for all new arrivals in the West, so they might know something about the folks this land has shaped, about the folks who have long called this land their home. --D.L. Birchfield, author of Field of Honor and Black Silk Handkerchief

Diana Kouris grew up in a tough family, pioneers in a remote valley touching Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado. Her account of family life along the Green River is as comfortable as a family album, with photographs leading the reader through the stories, showing the high expectations and love that created responsible adults. The people, livestock, and land depended on one another, trusted one another, and reinforced one another. --Linda M. Hasselstrom, author of Between Grass and Sky and other Western nonfiction

About this edition

• Publisher: High Plains Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0931271851
• ISBN 13: 9780931271854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256