When Jo Jeffers was a young girl suffering from asthma, she promised herself, "When I grow up, if I ever do, I shall go to Arizona and be a cowboy." She did both, and Ranch Wife tells the story of her life as wife and partner of a rancher in the high country of northeastern Arizona. Here she describes the routines of ranch life and vividly recalls the dust storms, plagues, and other hazards that challenged the young city-bred woman. It offers readers not only an insider's view of a working ranch but also an appreciation of how ranchers' wives help sustain such a rugged enterprise.

When Jo Jeffers was a young girl suffering from asthma, she promised herself, "When I grow up, if I ever do, I shall go to Arizona and be a cowboy." She did both, and Ranch Wife tells the story of her life as wife and partner of a rancher in the high country of northeastern Arizona. Here she describes the routines of ranch life and vividly recalls the dust storms, plagues, and other hazards that challenged the young city-bred woman. It offers readers not only an insider's view of a working ranch but also an appreciation of how ranchers' wives help sustain such a rugged enterprise.

Continue on the adventure with The Rancher Takes a Wife, the conclusion to Richmond Hobson's western frontier trilogy! The interior of British Columbia in the early 20th century is a jungle of swamps, rivers, and grasslands. It's a vast and still barely explored wilderness, whose principal citizens are timber wolves, moose, giant grizzly bears, and the odd human being. Into this forbidding land, Rich Hobson, Pioneer cattle rancher, brings Gloria, his city-raised bride. Her adjustment to life in the wilderness is sure to be difficult, as is her relationship with Rich and his backwoods cronies. Will Gloria find that she belongs in this strange, harsh land? Told with wit and wisdom, Hobson recounts a wild true adventure story in the last book of his collection of survival tales. These dramatic tales are described with the humor and vivid detail that have made Hobson's books perennial favorites.

Hilarious and heart-wrenching stories about the realities of living life on a cattle ranch as the hired hand-told by a woman who knows nothing about agriculture. Kacee Rundell poses an upfront and honest look into the lives of ranchers through the fresh eyes of someone just learning about the ever-changing way of life. Her memoir offers moments of joy and triumph, followed by poignant stories of hardship and lessons learned on the way to becoming a Ranch Wife. THE RANCH WIFE details the daily struggles and life lessons of America's ranching culture-laid out in a unique way, so that readers everywhere can follow along and bask in moments of emotion and embrace America's humble hearts. "When the Rundell says, "The Real Life . . ." she gives us the down and dirty very real life of a Ranch Wife! Her experiences and life responses are not only enlightening but very entertaining. Few ever get to experience the realities of living on a ranch in the tough country of Wyoming, but once you start immersing yourself in this book of real life tales, you'll believe you were right there beside her. You are in for a real ride - hunker down, dig in your spurs, and hang on!" - B.N. Rundell, author of the Stonecroft Saga series

A true adventure story of a man who built a four-million acre cattle empire in the remote ranges of the British Columbia Interior.

A woman writer moves into a house she inherited from a poet in the hills of Arizona. The man died in mysterious circumstances and Maggie Black wants to find out why. So begins a terrifying introduction to the Indian spirits which roam the hills and feed on people's creative juices.

The year environmentalist Sam Bingham spent in Colorado's San Luis Valley showed him that environmental disasters of global consequence are happening in our own backyard. THE LAST RANCH tells of the desperate efforts of one community to stop the encroaching desert. "A rare and beautifully written account of hard lives in hard times, and must reading for those interested in the future of the American West".--KIRKUS REVIEWS.