Rabbit Creek Country: Three Ranching Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West

Name: Rabbit Creek Country: Three Ranching Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West
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ISBN: 9781283636865

ISBN-10: 1283636867

ISBN-13: 9781283636865

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Authors: Jon Thiem

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In 1997 Jon Thiem was hiking in Livermore country near Fort Collins, Colorado. Following one fork of Rabbit Creek, he discovered an abandoned house and literally walked into the lives of John and Ida Elliott and Miss Josephine Lamb. Always curious about earlier inhabitants of this land, and conscious of the changes wrought by modern sprawl on its use and character, Thiem pursued the story of these former ranchers for nearly a decade.What Thiem and research associate Deborah Dimon discovered is that the three had an unconventional living arrangement that endured for over forty years, a relationship that had as much to do with their love of the land as of each other.John Elliott's father…

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List price: $39.18
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 11/1/2008
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 470
Language: English

Jon Thiem is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Colorado State University. He is the co-translator of History, Philosophy, and Culture in the Young Gramsci (1975) and author of numerous essays published in Comparative Literature , The Journal of the History of Ideas , and Cadmos .