Windbreak: A Woman Rancher on the Northern Plains by Linda M. Hasselstrom ISBN 13: 9780960962631

Barn Owl Books, 1987. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Barn Owl Books, 1987. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Barn Owl Books, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Barn Owl Books. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Barn Owl Books. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Barn Owl Books, June 1987. Trade Paperback. Used - Good. Local Independent Bookstore. All Orders ship within 2 business days.

Barn Owl Books, 1987. VG,. Softcover, 233p., ISBN 0-9609626-3-8

Barn Owl Books, 1987-06. Paperback. Very Good. Very good paperback. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good. A nice copy. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Barn Owl Books, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. Inscribed by author on fep. Includes promotional release letter from Barn Owl Books

Berkeley, California: Barn Owl Books, 1987. First Thus. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Light wear to corners.

Barn Owl Books. Softcover. Very Good. 92x8x140. The Book is in Very Good+ condition. South Dakota is a land where the only rule is "you can never tell what a bobtail cow will do." In the winter, the temperature can drop to minus fifty-six - if the wind only blows twenty-five miles an hour. Spring means getting up at ten p.m., midnight, and two a.m. to check on pregnant cows. Snow storms at the end of April can decimate a vegetable garden. In the summer, you can spend fourteen hours a day haying and the rest of the time watching for fires. Then there's canning, drying, and freezing to get ready for winter again. Highlights the rancher's struggle with natural elements and affords a look at the forces that shape a poet. Hasselstrom, rancher, poet, wife, and environmentalist, blends the practical with the poetic in her well-crafted book. Haying, fence mending, and cattle branding are described, along with the more dramatic occurences of ranch lifeblizzards, prairie fires, cattle… Read More

Barn Owl Books. 1987. Trade paperback. Fine.. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 233 p. Audience: General/trade. . No previous owner's name .

barn owl books. 1987 4th Printing, Softcover, VG, the Diary of a modern day South Dakota ranch woman, ISBN 0-9609626-3-8, 233 pages

Berkeley, CA: Barn Owl Books, 1987. Paperback. Near Fine. 233 pages; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" Front cover and the first few page top corners are slightly creased.

Barn Owl Books, 1987-06. Paperback. Good.

Barn Owl Books, 1987. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 92x8x140. Pofcher, Ellen, and Diamond, Sandy. South Dakota is a land where the only rule is "you can never tell what a bobtail cow will do." In the winter, the temperature can drop to minus fifty-six - if the wind only blows twenty-five miles an hour. Spring means getting up at ten p.m., midnight, and two a.m. to check on pregnant cows. Snow storms at the end of April can decimate a vegetable garden. In the summer, you can spend fourteen hours a day haying and the rest of the time watching for fires. Then there's canning, drying, and freezing to get ready for winter again. Highlights the rancher's struggle with natural elements and affords a look at the forces that shape a poet. Hasselstrom, rancher, poet, wife, and environmentalist, blends the practical with the poetic in her well-crafted book. Haying, fence mending, and cattle branding are described, along with the more dramatic occurences of ranch… Read More

Barn Owl Books, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition.

Barn Owl Books, 1987-06-01. PAPERBACK. Very Good. Signed. Inscribed/signed by the author on the first page. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations.

Berkeley, CA: Barn Owl Books, 1987. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Ken Norgard (Photographer); Ellen Potcher (Map). Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/faint creasing to upper front corner. Pen mark to front cover verso & phone number to rear endpaper. Diary. Day-to-day account of running a South Dakota cattle ranch by rancher, poet, feminist and environmentalist Linda Hasselstrom. Given winters of below -56 degree when winds hold at 25 miles an hour; springs needing to check on pregnant cows at 10 PM, midnight, & 2 AM, plus April snow storms that can do-in the vegetable gardenb. Spring means getting up at ten p.m., midnight, and two a.m. to check on pregnant cows. Snow storms at the end of April can decimate a vegetable garden; and summers tossing hay ending in freezing, drying and canning while contantly on the look-out for prairie fires ...yet something makes for ranching in South Dakota. Perhaps a break in the wind? Hope in spring? Lovliness in summer?… Read More

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