Bitterbrush Country: Living on the Edge of the Land
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555912931 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Maureen J. farm policy, encroaching development, and globalization. From Library Journal When Diane Josephy met Idaho state senator and rancher John Peavey in 1980, she hardly suspected that her urban existence was about to end and that she would find herself married to this third-generation rancher and living in blissful isolation at the end of a 24-mile dirt road. Marie, MI Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Originally read on Idaho Public Radio, the essays reveal the heart of Western rural culture rodeos, county fairs, and sheep shearing, as well as the struggle of family farms to survive unpredictable weather, unfavorable U.S. Delaney-Lehman, Lake Superio
In a mosaic of essays, Peavey shares both her visceral joys in the land and her fears about losing a rural western way of life.
Go West, Young Woman A Customer Although I've read many books by and about women in the West, this is a refreshing new twist on the oft-told memoir in which the author marries a sheep and cattle rancher and grows to love the wide open and arid spaces of Southern Idaho, as well as the interesting characters she meets along the process. "Excellent, excellent, excellent" according to Washington State Native. I highly recommend this book to all - those that love the life of a Western ranch and those that are just curious. You will be entertained and enlightened by these essays. You will laugh and develop a deeper sense of compassion. Diane is a wonderful writer and brings her stories to life with powerful w. "Relevant to Farm Woman" according to Susan Westendorf. I read this book in short spurts because Diane Peavy tells my story as well as hers. From the Farm Crisis of the 80's to the search for balance between production agriculture and environmental stewardship, Peavy puts words to my own southern Idaho experiences--the joy, loss, confusion and changes beyon
These expeditions gave her an early rooted connection to the people and the wide-open spaces of the West.. Although she grew up on the East Coast, Diane Josephy Peavey spent many childhood summers driving across the West to a second home in Joseph, Oregon, with her historian father, Alvin Josephy, Jr