Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
In Feels Like Far, award-winning author Linda Hasselstrom paints an intimate portrait of family, love, work, nature, and survival against the backdrop of the far-flung South Dakota prairie. Sixteen linked stories tell of the joy of training a first horse, the heartbreak of finding a fatally injured cow, the beauty of cavorting nighthawks, the stubbornness of her father, a rigid old rancher who bucks at old age, the deep, almost spiritual bond she shares with a friend who is diagnosed with AIDS.
“In deliciously direct and unsentimental style” (Kathleen Norris), Hasselstrom maps the landscape of her life, demarcating the same beauties and brutalities that intermingle on the Great Plains she calls home.
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Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
In Feels Like Far, award-winning author Linda Hasselstrom paints an intimate portrait of family, love, work, nature, and survival against the backdrop of the far-flung South Dakota prairie. Sixteen linked stories tell of the joy of training a first horse, the heartbreak of finding a fatally injured cow, the beauty of cavorting nighthawks, the stubbornness of her father, a rigid old rancher who bucks at old age, the deep, almost spiritual bond she shares with a friend who is diagnosed with AIDS.
“In deliciously direct and unsentimental style” (Kathleen Norris), Hasselstrom maps the landscape of her life, demarcating the same beauties and brutalities that intermingle on the Great Plains she calls home.
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Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains

Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains

by Linda M. Hasselstrom
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains

Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains

by Linda M. Hasselstrom

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In Feels Like Far, award-winning author Linda Hasselstrom paints an intimate portrait of family, love, work, nature, and survival against the backdrop of the far-flung South Dakota prairie. Sixteen linked stories tell of the joy of training a first horse, the heartbreak of finding a fatally injured cow, the beauty of cavorting nighthawks, the stubbornness of her father, a rigid old rancher who bucks at old age, the deep, almost spiritual bond she shares with a friend who is diagnosed with AIDS.
“In deliciously direct and unsentimental style” (Kathleen Norris), Hasselstrom maps the landscape of her life, demarcating the same beauties and brutalities that intermingle on the Great Plains she calls home.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780618124954
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 05/01/2001
Edition description: 1ST MARINE
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

LINDA HASSELSTROM is the author of many highly acclaimed books of nonfiction and poetry and the coeditor of Leaning into the Wind and Woven on the Wind. She divides her time between Wyoming and South Dakota.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Hawk Hits the Window1
The Owl in the Dark11
Sonata for Horses21
Blues for Shoveling Horse Manure33
Reckoning the Cost of a Dead Steer45
Lightning Strikes the White Heifer57
Looking for the Dark: Buffalo Winter71
Beekeeper87
Badger's Business107
Looking for Death: The Deer Harvest119
The Young Cow: Going Back to Grass139
Looking for the Light: The Elk in the Aspen153
Climbing into the Bull Pen167
Nighthawks Fly in Thunderstorms185
Looking for Life: Fire in the Wildlife Pasture199
Badger's Daughter211
Epilogue: Spinning with the Hawks221
Acknowledgments231
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