A Ranch for His Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Ranch for His Family write by Hope Navarre. This book was released on 2014. A Ranch for His Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Family Ranch
The Family Ranch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Family Ranch write by Linda Hussa. This book was released on 2009-01-15. The Family Ranch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ranch families in the twenty-first century face many challenges, from competition with government-subsidized agribusiness corporations to tax laws that encourage development over agriculture and prevent the smooth transfer of land from one generation to the next. As a stabilizing force in the American West, ranch families play a critical role in our country, perhaps more so today than ever before, yet their stories have rarely been told. They contribute to our nation with the food they raise, the environments they protect, and the resources they manage, and they preserve our western heritage while holding the West open for the rest of us. In The Family Ranch, award-winning author Linda Hussa offers readers a personal, inside view into the lives of six diverse ranching families and the land that shapes their days and nights. Photographer Madeleine Graham Blake provides engaging and often moving images that portray each family at work and at play. With chapters on the critical issues that face each of them—from grazing rights and water use, to children's education and the emerging rural marketplace—these family profiles are set in a larger context. This is family ranching as it is now, a tracing of how it always was, but made far more complex in modern times. By combining their traditions with the tools of modern technology, these people strengthen the ideal of family and give the business of ranching a vibrant and viable future.The Family Ranch is rich in remarkable stories of what happens when parents, children, work, and nature come together for a lifetime of commitment. It speaks to urban and rural people in important ways, illuminating the realities of the western ranch and the people who make their living, and their lives, on it. Essential reading for people who love the West and care about its future. The Family Ranch inspires thoughts about tradition, values, and responsibility that are applicable to all communities.
Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress
Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress write by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. This book was released on 1963. Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
History of Santa Clara County, California
History of Santa Clara County, California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Santa Clara County, California write by Eugene Taylor Sawyer. This book was released on 1922. History of Santa Clara County, California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hillingdon Ranch
Hillingdon Ranch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hillingdon Ranch write by David K. Langford. This book was released on 2013. Hillingdon Ranch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1885, San Antonio architect Alfred Giles began buying the land that would become Hillingdon Ranch, eventually accumulating 13,000 acres near the town of Comfort in Kendall County. As the property passed to succeeding generations, the holdings got smaller, and more family members shared a stake in the ranch. Today, dozens of Giles descendants own pieces of it, ranging in size from ten to several hundred acres. Yet Hillingdon remains a working ranch, with day-to-day operations managed by Robin Giles, grandson of Alfred Giles; his wife, Carol; their son, Grant; and Grant's wife, Misty. The cattle, sheep, and goat business they built has become a model of stewardship and sustainability. While managing family relationships can often be as complicated as managing livestock and forage, the ranch would not exist without the commitment of the large extended family, now in its sixth generation on the ranch. "Hillingdon Ranch: Four Seasons, Six Generations" chronicles how one family has worked together over many years to keep their ranch intact. It is also a beautifully photographed portrait of a ranching family and their life in the Texas Hill Country, where work is guided by the seasons, increasingly influenced by technology, and inevitably affected by drought. In learning about the family's successes and challenges, readers will gain a greater appreciation of what the Giles family's efforts mean to the rest of us: food, fiber, clean air, wildlife, healthy land, peace and quiet, and, perhaps most important of all, clean and plentiful water.
