His latest book pulls together 85 stories about area ranches and ranchers. The stories were taken from Jerry's popular Sunday Homestead series, which has been published in the Standard-Times since 2006.
Author Jane Kirkpatrick relates how she and her husband came to live in their home in remote Eastern Oregon.
But in the winter of 1985, despite all their money and free labor, they were disbanding. The ranch would be sold, along with much of their equipment. In their effort—their mission, as Kay's friend described it— to build a city, ...
For more than a century Homestead, Pennsylvania, was the heart of the American steel industry and the preeminent symbol of America's industrial might. Today Homestead, like the steel industry, like...
Follows the passions and fortunes of three neighboring families living in a tiny remote village in the Austrial Alps from 1909 to the late 1970s
Belle Song just wants to go home.
In 1964 Annick Smith came to Montana with her husband Dave and their boys. In a fertile valley where meadows tip downward toward the Big Blackfoot River, they found what...
High in the Austrian alps, ringed by the Three Sisters and the majestic Praying Hands, lies the tiny village of Rosenau, a scattering of dairy farms so isolated that the...
"A passionate story, beautifully told." --ANNIE DILLARD In 1964 Annick Smith came to Montana with her husband, Dave, and their boys.
Homestead
Homestead, first published in 1910 as one volume in the classic Pittsburgh Survey, describes daily life in a community that was dominated economically and physically by the giant Homestead Works...