Living in the Runaway West Partisan Views from Writers on the Range

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781555910488
• ISBN10: 1555910483
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing

Summary

The editors of the feisty, award-winning western newspaper, High Country News, gather here an eclectic and gutsy group of western writers to tackle the issues of the day.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vi
Timothy Egan
Preface: Who Are the Writers on the Range?	x
Paul Larmer
GROWING PAINS---1	1	(34)
Why I'm Against It All	3	(2)
Ken Wright
My Beautiful Ranchette	5	(2)
Susan Ewing
Hanging On in Montana	7	(3)
Ray Ring
Cracking the Contractor's Code	10	(3)
Marty Jones
The ABCs for Developers	13	(2)
Norm Wallen
You Are Where You Eat	15	(3)
Mary Sojourner
Single in the West	18	(2)
Michelle Nijbuis
Wyoming: The Last Tough Place	20	(2)
Tom Reed
Crazy Horse Must Be Laughing	22	(2)
Dave Gowdey
A Newcomer's Old Story	24	(3)
Paul Larmer
Rebel Yell in the Mall	27	(2)
Susan Zakin
Dodging Bumper Cars	29	(3)
Auden Schendler
The Reluctant Landlord	32	(3)
Ed Quillen
MYTH BUSTING---2	35	(34)
Saint Contrary: John Wesley Powell	37	(3)
William deBuys
It's a Good Day to Be Indigenous	40	(2)
Stephen Lyons
Cannibalizing a Sacred Belief	42	(3)
Art Goodtimes
Honoring the First Discoverers	45	(2)
Dan Oko
Harley-Burly	47	(2)
John Clayton
A Woman's Secret for Survival on the Ranch	49	(3)
Linda Hasselstrom
February Is the Cruelest Month	52	(2)
Penelope Reedy
The Shooting That Made Guns Real	54	(3)
Jim Stiles
Why I Still Love Guns	57	(2)
Rocky Barker
Flower Power for the Armed West	59	(2)
Penelope Reedy
Sex and the Single Cowboy	61	(2)
Stephen Lyons
Old-Timers	63	(2)
Chinle Miller
Remembering Ed Abbey	65	(4)
Jim Stiles
WHOSE PUBLIC DOMAIN?---3	69	(38)
Sharks in the Land	71	(3)
Ed Marston
Pay as You Play?	74	(2)
Ken Wright
Desperately Seeking Silence	76	(2)
Stephen Stuebner
Bolting Paradise	78	(3)
Steve Wolper
The Wild, at the Cellular Level	81	(2)
Christina Nealson
When River Guiding Was Grand	83	(3)
Brad Dimock
Cult of the Lazy Hunters	86	(2)
Cody Beers
Freedom Is Just Another Word for Snowmobiles	88	(3)
John Adams
Happy Campers	91	(2)
Lou Bendrick
Wilderness Is No Handicap	93	(3)
Paul Larmer
Grazing: The Hard Facts	96	(3)
Susan Zakin
My Grandpa, the Eco-Rancher	99	(2)
Mervin Mecklenberg
Up in Arms Over Idaho	101	(3)
Stephen Stuebner
The Smell of a Forest Healing	104	(3)
Rocky Barker
POLITICAL TURMOIL---4	107	(46)
Lost in God's Country	109	(3)
Stephen Lyons
Burning Zeal	112	(3)
Karl Brooks
Watching the World from Flagstaff	115	(3)
Mary Sojourner
Home on the Whitening Range	118	(3)
Richard Manning
How the Farm Bureau Lost Its Overalls	121	(3)
Susan Zakin
The Politics of Hate and Switch	124	(3)
Dan Dagget
Biting the Hand That Feeds	127	(2)
Pat Williams
Unleashing the Power of Rivers	129	(3)
Bruce Babbitt
Dam Culture	132	(3)
Rocky Barker
The Greening of the Rednecks	135	(3)
Mark Matthews
Running and Losing	138	(3)
Charles Pezeshki
Invisible Democrats	141	(2)
Daniel Kemmis
Super Saturday in the West?	143	(3)
Ed Quillen
Craig Versus Craig: May the Best Man Win	146	(3)
Ed Marston
Utah and the Politics of Acceptance	149	(2)
Mark Menlove
A Land-Based View of Sexual Indiscretion	151	(2)
Christina Nealson
THE NATURE OF THE WEST---5	153	(44)
Enough with the Nature Already	155	(3)
Stephen Lyons
The Problem with Cows	158	(2)
Chris Frasier
The Cow Drive: Better Than TV	160	(2)
David Feela
Wily Coyote	162	(3)
Dan Whipple
Babysitting Salmon	165	(2)
John Rosapepe
Grizzlies and the Male Animal	167	(2)
Louise Wagenknecht
Vermin to Vermin	169	(3)
Mark Matthews
Prairie Dogs Unlimited	172	(3)
Ed Quillen
The Wolf and the Rancher	175	(3)
Michael J. Robinson
Living with the Big Bad Wolf	178	(3)
Tom Reed
Killing the Snake in the Grass	181	(2)
Hal Walter
The High Cost of Roadkill	183	(3)
Mark Matthews
Hart and Soul	186	(2)
David Peterson
The Short End of the Harpoon	188	(2)
'Asta Bowen
Bison in the Snow	190	(2)
Andrea Barnett
Fencing the Wild	192	(2)
Hal Walter
Hope in the Garden	194	(3)
Marty Jones
CULTURE CLASH---6	197	(36)
We Got Your Number, Cowboy	199	(3)
Jim Dwyer
A Wardrobe for the New West	202	(2)
Louise Wagenknecht
Cowboy Poetry Stinks	204	(3)
Mark Matthews
Throwing the Dice on Our Kids' Future	207	(3)
Mary Sojourner
High Time for a New West Celebration	210	(2)
Ed Quillen
Junk: The West's Best Friend	212	(2)
Don Olsen
In Praise of Trailer Trash	214	(2)
Dewey Linze
Urban Soup for the Soul	216	(2)
Paul Krza
Always an Outsider	218	(2)
Hal Clifford
``Loco'' in Any Language	220	(2)
Stephen Lyons
The Shadow Beneath the Mountains	222	(2)
Peter McBride
Views from the Underground	224	(3)
Paul Larmer
Fenced in by the Open Range Law	227	(2)
Kim Vacariu
Confessions of a Recreation Junkie	229	(2)
Colin Chisholm
Of Cathedrals and Petroglyphs	231	(2)
Susan Tweit
Contributors	233	(5)
Index	238