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No place like home : notes from a Western life
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" ... Linda Hasselstrom contemplates the changing nature of community in the modern West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into mean, cong...
" ... Linda Hasselstrom contemplates the changing nature of community in the modern West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into mean, congested cities. Her scrutiny, like her life, moves back and forth between her ranch on the South Dakota prairie and her house in an old neighborhood at the edge of downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming"--Jacket.
Details
- Creator
- Linda M. Hasselstrom
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (x, 211 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780874178050, 0874178053, 9780874177961, 0874177960, 0874178312, 9780874178319, 9780874177961
- OCLC
- ocn472422651
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211).
- English.
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: A 2 4 Chevy Named Beulah; Selling the Ranch; Dear John: How to Move to the Country; The School Bus Driver Waved; Laughter in the Alley; Tomato Cages Are Metaphors; A Rocket Launcher in the Closet; The Beauty of Responsibility; Watching for Grizzlies Anyway; He Pinched the Burning End; Shoveling Snow in the Dark; Stalking Coffee in Sitka; Recycling Freedom; Tattoos and a Thong; Learning the Names of Cows; How to Live at the Dump; It Doesn't Just Happen; Making Pottery out of Sewage; Pray for Me I Drive Highway 79
- The Stolen Canoe MysteryPlaying Pool with the Cat Men; Sounding the Writing Mudhole; Investigating the Heron Murders; Who's Driving the Subdivision?; Overlooking Antelope Ridge; Epilogue: Waiting for the Storm; Additional Resources
Subjects
- Hasselstrom, Linda M.
- Women ranchers -- South Dakota -- Biography.
- Ranch life -- South Dakota.
- South Dakota -- Social life and customs.
- South Dakota -- Biography.
- Cheyenne (Wyo.) -- Biography.
- Community life -- West (U.S.) -- Case studies.
- Social change -- West (U.S.) -- Case studies.
- Human ecology -- West (U.S.) -- Case studies.
- West (U.S.) -- Rural conditions -- Case studies.