Feels Like Far : A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains

by Hasselstrom, Linda M.

• ISBN13: 9780618124954
• ISBN10: 0618124950
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

In Feels Like Far, award-winning author Linda Hasselstrom paints an intimate portrait of family, love, work, nature, and survival against the backdrop of the far-flung South Dakota prairie. Sixteen linked stories tell of the joy of training a first horse, the heartbreak of finding a fatally injured cow, the beauty of cavorting nighthawks, the stubbornness of her father, a rigid old rancher who bucks at old age, the deep, almost spiritual bond she shares with a friend who is diagnosed with AIDS."In deliciously direct and unsentimental style" (Kathleen Norris), Hasselstrom maps the landscape of her life, demarcating the same beauties and brutalities that intermingle on the Great Plains she calls home.

Author Biography

LINDA HASSELSTROM is the author of many highly acclaimed books of nonfiction and poetry and the coeditor of Leaning into the Wind and Woven on the Wind. She divides her time between Wyoming and South Dakota.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Hawk Hits the Window	1	(10)
The Owl in the Dark	11	(10)
Sonata for Horses	21	(12)
Blues for Shoveling Horse Manure	33	(12)
Reckoning the Cost of a Dead Steer	45	(12)
Lightning Strikes the White Heifer	57	(14)
Looking for the Dark: Buffalo Winter	71	(16)
Beekeeper	87	(20)
Badger's Business	107	(12)
Looking for Death: The Deer Harvest	119	(20)
The Young Cow: Going Back to Grass	139	(14)
Looking for the Light: The Elk in the Aspen	153	(14)
Climbing into the Bull Pen	167	(18)
Nighthawks Fly in Thunderstorms	185	(14)
Looking for Life: Fire in the Wildlife Pasture	199	(12)
Badger's Daughter	211	(10)
Epilogue: Spinning with the Hawks	221	(10)
Acknowledgments	231