Fifty Miles From Home: Riding The Long Circle On A Nevada Family Ranch - Hardcover

Dufurrena, Carolyn; Dufurrena, Linda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874174430 ISBN 13: 9780874174434

Publisher: University of Nevada Press, 2001

Synopsis

For more than a decade, photographer Linda Dufurrena has recorded with powerful eloquence the rugged, heartbreakingly beautiful landscape of northern Nevada and the patterns of life on the Dufurrena family ranch in the Quinn River Valley. Her work has appeared in magazines and has been widely exhibited, but now, for the first time, 124 of her finest photographs are collected in book form. Accompanied by a brilliant essay by her daughter-in-law, teacher and writer Carolyn Dufurrena, that discusses the rhythms of the land and of life on the ranch, the photographs in Fifty Miles from Home vividly depict the heart of the West and its fabled ranch culture.

About this title

About the Author:

Linda Dufurrena is a widely exhibited and published Nevada photographer specializes in depictions of rural Nevada scenery and of traditional ranch life. Carolyn Dufurrena is a writer and teacher who first arrived in Nevada as a geologist. Her articles on ranch life and regional topics have appeared in Range Magazine and her poetry and essays have been anthologized.

Review:

This fine collaboration between Carolyn Dufurrena and mother-in-law Linda Dufurrena provides an insightful and personal look at ranch life in northern Nevada. --Western Horseman

This well-made and heartfelt book is at once a primer in high desert ranching, a salute to the stark beauty of this empty country and the people who work it, and alas an elegy to a culture that is disappearing. --Journal of the West

Readers of Fifty Miles will likely be seduced by Carolyn s writings and equally, or even more, by Linda s exquisite and creative photography. --Klamath Falls Herald and News

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0874174430
• ISBN 13: 9780874174434
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200