Linda Hasselstrom
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Description
A new kind of rancher and a new kind of environmentalist, Linda Hasselstrom embraces old values, most particularly, responsibility for the land born out of love for it. Speaking with an eloquent simplicity in these collected essays and poems, the author futher explores her visceral connection with the land.
Author
Description
Linda Hasselstrom guides readers through the physical and emotional landscape of going over east to summer pasture. With each stop, she makes a nostalgic foray into the past, discusses the routine demands of her family's cow-calf operation, pays loving tribute to a favorite old horse, celebrates the wildlife and silent dignity of deserted homesteads, or hurls a diatribe at the forces threatening the future of the land and of her small South Dakota...
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
To witness the joy and authenticity a life can hold, meet the women of today's High Plains West. These true stories, essays, and poems tell of the glories and rigors of living close to the land, depicting an American West that is "blessed unromantic" (Kathleen Norris).
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"... 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.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A collection of poetry and prose about women in the West features the work of 152 tough, adaptive women, including Buddhists living in Nebraska, rodeo moms, cowgirls, Hutterites in South Dakota, and many other ladies of the American frontier, telling personal stories about their connections to the West.
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