A Ranch for His Family
Author : Hope Navarre
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 0373718985
Author : Hope Navarre
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 0373718985
Author : Linda Hussa
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0874177812
Ranch families in the twenty-first century face many challenges, from competition with government-subsidized agribusiness corporations to tax laws that encourage development over agriculture and prevent the smooth transfer of land from one generation to the next. As a stabilizing force in the American West, ranch families play a critical role in our country, perhaps more so today than ever before, yet their stories have rarely been told. They contribute to our nation with the food they raise, the environments they protect, and the resources they manage, and they preserve our western heritage while holding the West open for the rest of us. In The Family Ranch, award-winning author Linda Hussa offers readers a personal, inside view into the lives of six diverse ranching families and the land that shapes their days and nights. Photographer Madeleine Graham Blake provides engaging and often moving images that portray each family at work and at play. With chapters on the critical issues that face each of them—from grazing rights and water use, to children's education and the emerging rural marketplace—these family profiles are set in a larger context. This is family ranching as it is now, a tracing of how it always was, but made far more complex in modern times. By combining their traditions with the tools of modern technology, these people strengthen the ideal of family and give the business of ranching a vibrant and viable future.The Family Ranch is rich in remarkable stories of what happens when parents, children, work, and nature come together for a lifetime of commitment. It speaks to urban and rural people in important ways, illuminating the realities of the western ranch and the people who make their living, and their lives, on it. Essential reading for people who love the West and care about its future. The Family Ranch inspires thoughts about tradition, values, and responsibility that are applicable to all communities.
Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher :
Page : 1622 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Eugene Taylor Sawyer
Publisher :
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1922
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : David K. Langford
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Hillingdon Ranch (Tex.)
ISBN : 162349012X
In 1885, San Antonio architect Alfred Giles began buying the land that would become Hillingdon Ranch, eventually accumulating 13,000 acres near the town of Comfort in Kendall County. As the property passed to succeeding generations, the holdings got smaller, and more family members shared a stake in the ranch. Today, dozens of Giles descendants own pieces of it, ranging in size from ten to several hundred acres. Yet Hillingdon remains a working ranch, with day-to-day operations managed by Robin Giles, grandson of Alfred Giles; his wife, Carol; their son, Grant; and Grant's wife, Misty. The cattle, sheep, and goat business they built has become a model of stewardship and sustainability. While managing family relationships can often be as complicated as managing livestock and forage, the ranch would not exist without the commitment of the large extended family, now in its sixth generation on the ranch. "Hillingdon Ranch: Four Seasons, Six Generations" chronicles how one family has worked together over many years to keep their ranch intact. It is also a beautifully photographed portrait of a ranching family and their life in the Texas Hill Country, where work is guided by the seasons, increasingly influenced by technology, and inevitably affected by drought. In learning about the family's successes and challenges, readers will gain a greater appreciation of what the Giles family's efforts mean to the rest of us: food, fiber, clean air, wildlife, healthy land, peace and quiet, and, perhaps most important of all, clean and plentiful water.
Author : Filip Markovic
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1728383900
“Is it worth the sacrifice of love for justice?” This was the question of one innocent girl who lost everyone. She witnessed the crime that ruined her family, and after suffering the injustice, she ran away. After many years, she was cured of depression, and with the tragedy of her family locked in a cage inside her heart, she managed to find her true love, and now she was back to make things right! Once, her land, her bloody ranch, belonged to her, but it was no longer hers. In search of evidence, for light in darkness over her soul provoked by an unforgivable crime, she takes some dangerous steps on her way for justice! Everything comes with a price, as well as justice, and she is ready for the biggest sacrifice of her life—playing the game where she can win her deserved justice or lose her true love.
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Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2000-07
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Published for devotees of the cowboy and the West, American Cowboy covers all aspects of the Western lifestyle, delivering the best in entertainment, personalities, travel, rodeo action, human interest, art, poetry, fashion, food, horsemanship, history, and every other facet of Western culture. With stunning photography and you-are-there reportage, American Cowboy immerses readers in the cowboy life and the magic that is the great American West.
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Publisher : Douglas Rohde
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
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Author : Ken Mather
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1772031895
An entertaining, fast-paced look at early ranching in British Columbia. Frontier historian Ken Mather is known for his fascinating, in-depth profiles of the men and women who established a distinctive ranching culture in Western Canada over a hundred years ago. Now, in this concise collection of stories—based on Mather’s column in the Vernon Morning Star—readers will meet even more colourful characters, gain insightful tidbits on cowboy culture, and read about little-known cattle drives that stagger the imagination. Ranch Tales highlights the achievements, hardships, and exploits of Newman “King of the Range” Squires, “lady rancher” Elizabeth Greenbow, cow boss Joe Coutlee, the gold-seeking Jeffries brothers who came all the way from Alabama, and many more. This delightful book is a perfect companion to Mather’s other ranching histories and will appeal to anyone interested in the early days of the western frontier.