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The Family Ranch: Nurturing Children, the Land and Tradition in the American West, featuring photographs by Madeleine Graham Blake, and the writing of award-winning author Linda Hussa, offers an engaging and moving portrayal of ranch families at work and at play.
Hussa offers visitors a personal, inside look at how these families are a stabilizing force in the West: raising food, protecting the environment, managing resources and preserving Western heritage they while holding the West open for the rest of us. She also examines the critical issues facing family ranchers.
The exhibit also looks at how the family ranch lifestyle carries history and tradition forward, continuing this quintessentially American culture.
A book which carries the same name of the exhibit, written by Hussa and accompanied by Blake’s photos, was released this year by the University of Nevada Press.
Hussa, a nationally acclaimed poet, writer, and rancher in Cedarville, California, is the author of seven books, including three published by the Black Rock Press: Ride the Silence, Blood Sister I Am to These Fields, and Tokens from an Indian Graveyard. She is a frequent participant at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, and gives readings throughout the West.
Earlier this spring, Hussa won a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America organization. Her poem “The Only Good Indian” was published in her book Tokens in an Indian Graveyard in 2008.
The Spur Awards, given annually for distinguished writing about the American West, are among the oldest and most prestigious in American literature. In 1953, when the awards were established, Western fiction was a staple of American publishing.
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