As activists used to say: the personal is political, and so it is with modern family ranching in the West. These stories of six ranching families are woven together with big issues such as land use rights, the marketplace, water rights, property succession and the future of small ranches. The author, whose parents were forced from their ranch during the Depression, offers a compelling survey of ranching styles along with evocative photographs of the families in action. From a woman pulling a

June 2009
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- The Dark Border (Fiction)
- North Star (Fiction)
- Cowboy Park (Nonfiction)
- Family Ranch: Land, Children, and Tradition in the American West (Nonfiction)
- Mormonism’s Last Colonizer (Nonfiction)
- The Last Indian War (Nonfiction)
- Dark Spaces: Montana’s Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge (Nonfiction)
- Full-Court Quest (Nonfiction)
- Wallace Stegner and the American West (Nonfiction)
- Word Gets Around (Fiction)
- Buried Lies (Fiction)
- Western Writers Pick Top 100 Westerns
- Sam Houston: Standing Firm (Children’s Book)
More In This Issue
- Revisiting Lonesome Dove
- Two Oregon Naturals Make A Team
- Steve Shaw
- Shoot-Out at Cottonwood Springs?
- Preservation: Indians on the Internet
- Following Mountain Man Jim Bridger
- Good As Gold
- Gold Fever
- “Fight of My Life”
- Survival in the Cold Old West
- The Chuckwagon Cooky
- Collecting Geronimo
- Why are the rear wheels of stagecoaches larger than the front ones?
- What do we know about Lottie Deno?