Writers on the Range: Western Writers Exploring the Changing Face of the American West

Part One: Range At The Divide -- A Clash Of Cultures In The Emerging West / John A. Baden -- Wise Use And The Limits Of Public Lands / Barbara Rusmore -- Wise Use And The West's Sentimental Economy / Donald Snow -- Homage To Catron County / Karl Hess Jr. Part Two: A Range Of Vistas -- The Cow As Totem / Linda M. Hasselstrom -- Songs Of The Range / Drummond Hadley -- Believing In The West / Hardy Redd -- Breaking Clean / Judy Blunt -- The Camas County, Idaho, Water Crisis: A Sexual Stalemate / Penelope Reedy -- Home Rule / Tom Wolf -- The View From The Spur / Stephen Bodio -- A Wound Called The West / Christina Nealson -- Freedom And The Environmental Movement / Randal O'toole Part Three: A Range Of Places -- Ranching A Changing Landscape: Development, Perception, And The Political Ecology Of The Western Range / William E. Reibsame -- Selling The Sizzle And The Steaks / Rocky Barker -- The Origin And The Future Of The Grassbank / Drummond Hadley -- Sweat Equity: The Capitalist Tool / Tom Wolf -- Saving Western Towns: A Jeffersonian Green Proposal / Gus Dizerega -- Space / Datus Proper -- A Politics Appropriate To Place / Donald Snow -- Western Artists And Analysts Working Together / John A. Baden -- Epilogue: What Kind Of West ... And Whose West Is It To Be? / Karl Hess Jr. Edited By Karl Hess, Jr. And John A. Baden. "Writers on the Range is a book by seventeen westerners about the American West. It is a story of place, mostly good but sometimes bad, a celebration of community, or at least its potential, and a tribute to the men and women, neither saints nor devils, who are the heart and soul of this land of desert, prairie, and forested mountain. Yet it is also much more. It is the melding of diverse western minds, backgrounds and beliefsranchers and one-time ranchwives, poets and policy tinkerers, essayists and hunters, journalists and political theorists, and community organizers and urban refugees - into a fierce resolve to stake claim and take a stand for a land that is loved in common."--BOOK JACKET