Hard grass : life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch

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Full Title:: Hard grass : life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch / Mary Zeiss Stange

Subjects:: Women ranchers--Montana--Biography
Ranchers--Montana--Biography
Bison farming--Montana
Crazy Woman Bison Ranch (Mont.)

Table of Contents:: Working "off the place" -- Coming home to the country -- The lay of the land -- Being "differnt" -- Intrepid hippies, homesteaders, and other survivors -- The law of the frontier -- Animal affinities -- Hard grass -- Hunting nature, hunting culture -- The business of buffalo -- The first, and last, annual buffalo gals hunt -- A nice place to visit -- Next year country -- New west, true west? -- Epilogue : rockfall.
Summary:: Our neighbors warned against our getting involved with bison. So intense was their concern that a delegation came by to visit about it. Earnestly, they explained that they worried that, even if after five years we seemed to have gotten pretty good at the rudiments of managing a ranch, we were getting in over our heads with this buffalo idea. Our first calf was born on Mother's Day of 1996. We had been on our place for eight years, and in spite of ourselves, we had become ranchers.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm