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A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture
by Stephanie Anderson

March 18, 2019

I’m in western South Dakota, rolling across the prairie in a blue 1970s-era pickup truck, when I first see them. Buffalo—faraway brown dots on... Read More...

A Boy on a Horse
by John Thomson

September 27, 2016

Fiction

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One cold September morning, I drove alone to a cattle ranch in the Sierra foothills, where one year earlier there had been a terrible accident... Read More...

A Habit of Landscape: The Draws
by Shelley Armitage

May 4, 2016

Nonfiction, To Know a Place

I began to learn that the land was lyric. If there was no poet of the plains, there was a poetry of the plains. One of my favorite childhoo... Read More...

Sage: Into the Golden Idaho Myth
by Evelyn Funda

April 24, 2016

Nonfiction, To Know a Place

To consider the facts of my grandfather Frank Funda’s birth, you might never imagine him becoming a poor, Idaho farmer. In fact, Frank’s backgro... Read More...

An Excerpt from Alibi Creek
by Bev Magennis

March 7, 2016

Fiction

WEDNESDAYSEPTEMBER 12, 2007 The twinge caused by a drop in barometric pressure shot from Lee Ann’s shoulder up her neck into her left eye. Rain... Read More...

Interview with Ivan Doig

September 6, 2015

Interviews

Middle-Class Cosmic MechanicBy Derek SheffieldAbout Author Ivan Doig and this Interview Ivan Doig. Photo by Carol Doig.Born in White Sulphur Spr... Read More...

She Poured Out Her Own
by Julene Bair

April 8, 2013

Issue 32, Nonfiction

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This essay was first published in 2007 in the anthology Home Land: Ranching and a West That Works. It is reprinted by permission of the author. ... Read More...

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