After Wall Street collapses, investment banker Griff McPherson trades in his suits and ties for Stetsons and cowboy boots. He returns to the Wyoming ranch he co-owns with his brother, but it's not exactly a happy homecoming. So to prove to everyone that he belongs in Jackson Hole, Griff hires on as a wrangler for the Bar H. Air Force lieutenant Val Hunter has just returned to help her ailing grandmother run the ranch, and her new hire is easy on the...

"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000 acre wildfire, threatening her century old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the...

Ranching is as much a part of the West as its wide-open spaces. The mystique of rugged individualism has sustained this activity well past the frontier era and has influenced how we view—and value—those open lands.Nathan Sayre now takes a close look at how the ranching ideal has come into play in the conversion of a large tract of Arizona rangeland from private ranch to National Wildlife Refuge. He tells how the Buenos Aires Ranch, a working operation...

With all the intense drama and historical detail of her original New York Times bestselling Calder series, Janet Dailey returns to 1900s Montana and the challenges war and Prohibition brought to the frontier. Adding Romeo and Juliet-style romance to compelling landowner and family rivalries, Dailey brings fresh life to the story of America's westward expansion. 1919, Blue Moon, Montana. With the Great War over and the country on the brink of Prohibition,...

Rich beyond belief and despised by many, Flint comes home to die of cancer with no one at his side, until Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher, needs his help in saving her ranch, and only Flint has the resources and skills to help her before his time runs out.