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Nature writer, poet, and longtime leader in land stewardship, Linda M. Hasselstrom examines several generations of family diaries searching for an understanding of her ancestors and for direction in planning for the future of the plains ranch which has been in the family for over a century. Moving through the days of a year, she is never afraid to show the reader the most difficult thing of allthe truth of her life. The portrait that emerges ...

Suitable for those who are curious about the state of contemporary West, this book offers a report from the front, where nature and human aspirations are often at odds, and where the concepts of community and mutual responsibility are being redefined.

An honest portrayal of contemporary life on the plains from an award-winning author. Hasselstrom structures her narration around the opening and closing of gates as she goes "over east" en route to the summer pasture. With each stop, she makes a nostalgic foray into the past and celebrates the silent dignity of deserted homesteads.

The West Found in Linda Hasselstrom's poems is neither the mythical Old West nor the New West of ranchettes and trophy homes. Hasselstrom's aria is set to the rhythms of the authentic West, laced with lyrical realism, and distilled to the sharp crispness of a plains morning.Here you'll find the night heron whose "slender beak descends, a sudden hammer on a silver spine." You'll "give yourself sunsets...in shades of pink and gold" while "long t...

Ponders the changing nature of community in the modern American West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into mean, congested cities. Linda Hasselstrom's scrutiny, like her life, moves back and forth between her ranch on the South Dakota prairie and her house in an old neighbourhood at the edge of downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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. In a direct and unsentimental style Hasselstrom maps the landscape of her life, demarcating the same beauties and brutalities that intermingle on the Great Plains she calls home.