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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.
Author Notes
Although she grew up on the East Coast, Diane Peavey spent many childhood summers driving across the West to a second home in Joseph, Oregon, with her historian father, Alvin Josephy, Jr. These expeditions gave her an early rooted connection to the people & the wide-open spaces of the West. For the past 20 years she has lived with her husband, John Peavey, on the Flat Top Sheep Co. ranch in Carey, Idaho.
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Library Journal Review
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. This is a collection of short essays revealing humorous, heartwarming, and heartbreaking moments from her life on Flat Top Sheep Ranch. 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. farm policy, encroaching development, and globalization. Peavey writes of her passion for the land in all its beauty and complexity, which is the common ground between her rancher and environmentalist sides. Her compelling writing evokes the smell of sagebrush, the sweltering heat of a cattle drive on a 100-degree day, and the pleasant melancholy of a winter landscape. Highly recommended for all public libraries and for academic libraries with Western or nature-writing collections. Maureen J. Delaney-Lehman, Lake Superior State Univ., Sault Ste. Marie, MI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
Author's Note | p. vii |
Introduction | p. ix |
Prologue: Seasons | p. xv |
Spring | |
Beginnings | p. 3 |
Coming to Flat Top | p. 7 |
The Cabin | p. 9 |
Spring Search | p. 11 |
Sage Hens | p. 13 |
Farming | p. 15 |
Camas | p. 18 |
Shipping the Sheep Home | p. 20 |
Buying Bucks | p. 23 |
Wildflowers | p. 25 |
Boxes | p. 27 |
Grandmother Peavey | p. 29 |
Those We Lost | p. 31 |
Burley | p. 33 |
Sheep Tragedy | p. 35 |
Laidlaw Park Range Tour | p. 37 |
Sandhill Cranes | p. 40 |
Laidlaw Fence | p. 42 |
Snakes | p. 44 |
Riding | p. 45 |
Cattle Drive | p. 47 |
Gourmet Food | p. 50 |
Floods | p. 52 |
100 Degrees in the Shade | p. 54 |
Brothers | p. 56 |
Jimmy | p. 58 |
Summer | |
Birthdays | p. 63 |
24 Miles from Town | p. 65 |
The Wedding | p. 67 |
Trees | p. 70 |
Sage Is for Remembering | p. 72 |
The Telephone | p. 74 |
Guard Dogs | p. 76 |
Pink House | p. 78 |
Skunks | p. 80 |
Old Cabins | p. 82 |
Shoshone | p. 84 |
Grand Champion | p. 86 |
4-H Sale | p. 88 |
Free Marketplace | p. 90 |
Rain | p. 92 |
Beavers | p. 94 |
Birds | p. 96 |
The Knoll | p. 98 |
Lamb Shippings | p. 100 |
Summer Storms | p. 102 |
Carey | p. 104 |
Cattle Guards | p. 106 |
Rodeo Heroes | p. 108 |
Myth and Reality | p. 110 |
Terrorism Tamed | p. 112 |
Hollyhocks | p. 116 |
Bull Meat | p. 118 |
Fences | p. 120 |
Chief Joseph Days | p. 122 |
Fall | |
Wolves | p. 127 |
Sunday | p. 129 |
Rethinking Priorities | p. 131 |
Chokecherry Jelly | p. 133 |
The Road | p. 135 |
Pickup Talk | p. 137 |
Running | p. 140 |
Shearing | p. 142 |
Pahrump | p. 144 |
Rainbows | p. 146 |
Trailing the Sheep | p. 148 |
Early Storm | p. 150 |
Rivers | p. 152 |
Farm Bill | p. 154 |
Town for Sale | p. 156 |
Odyssey | p. 158 |
Ranch Dogs | p. 164 |
Western Cafes | p. 166 |
Owls | p. 168 |
Generations | p. 170 |
Waiting | p. 172 |
Moving to Town | p. 174 |
Winter | |
Winter at the Ranch | p. 179 |
Snow | p. 182 |
Christmas in Carey | p. 184 |
Sheep in the Basement | p. 186 |
Christmas Journey | p. 188 |
Sheepherders' Christmas Feast | p. 190 |
Digging Out of Christmas | p. 192 |
Coco in Baja | p. 195 |
Meling Ranch | p. 197 |
Wool Markets | p. 200 |
Basque Food | p. 202 |
Hauling of the Bulls to California | p. 204 |
Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering | p. 206 |
Espresso | p. 209 |
The Debate | p. 211 |
Shed Lambing | p. 214 |
Valentine's Day | p. 216 |
Elk | p. 218 |
Winter Images | p. 220 |
Gray Ranch | p. 222 |
Las Vegas Retro | p. 224 |
Night at the Ranch | p. 226 |
The Cattle | p. 229 |
Heifers | p. 232 |
Kimama | p. 234 |
Ranch Women | p. 236 |
Love Letter | p. 238 |